Quotes About Altruism

People should always help others in need; there was no other way for the human race to survive.

Humans had a responsibility to do more than just protect themselves. In the face of evil, they were compelled to save each other.

Let's not forget the past. Let's not forget the heroes who fought so that others could survive. Let's not forget to be kind to our fellow man. Be nice if at all possible.

give to those in need and to do it quietly, for God will know your deeds.

And is that why we do what we do? For public approval, for fame? Do we help people because they will be appropriately grateful--or merely because they need help?

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

I'm hardly a stranger to the concept of bending rules to achieve a greater good.

Ma amare una persona significa pensare che lei viene prima di tutto. Se non avessimo abbastanza cibo, darei a te la mia parte. Se avessimo pochi soldi, piuttosto che acquistare qualcosa per me, comprerei quello che tu desideri. Se mangi qualcosa di buono tu, è come se avessi la pancia piena anch'io, se sei felice tu, allora lo sono anch'io. Questo significa amare una persona. Credi che esista qualcosa di più importante? A me non viene in mente nulla.

Everything he was, he gave to her.

The meaning of life is not to be loved, but to love.

do no harm. help when you can. return good for evil.

I love you, Elena. And it's because I love you that I can't be selfish with you. I don't deserve you, but my brother does.-Damon Salvatore, S2

I should not have cared to see it as an act of self-sacrifice even if it had been one; for there is nothing clever in self-sacrifice, nothing to pride oneself on.

Liberality consists less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.

What seems like generosity is often but a disguised ambition, which overlooks little interests, in order to gratify great ones.

We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.

Remain steadfast in the faith; instruct yourself; bridle your tongue; repress your wrath; forbear to do evil; associate with the good; screen the faults of your neighbour; relieve the poor by your alms; and expect your reward in eternity.

I don't want to make money I want to make a difference.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

O that all human hearts might join the strain; Then Hate, and Bigotry, and Sin would die; Then Peace would reign and wear its olive crown, And War with blood-stained feet no longer track Earth's fair domain, or wave its crimson flag. Then Pride would lay its flaunting mantle by; The cry of Hunger cease--the oppressor's rod Would scourge no more, but man be linked to man In one unbroken chain of brotherhood.

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

Here was the radical notion that you might help someone simply because they needed it.

Yang kita dapat ketika kita menghirup udara adalah kasih sayang yang mahabesar dan yang tidak meminta kembali. Dan yang dapat ketika kita makan adalah jerih payah orang lain yang tidak kita kenal.