Quotes About Altruism

Charlie Brown says that we're put here on earth to make others happy." "Is that why we're here? I guess I'd better start doing a better job... I'd hate to be shipped back!

We don't love because people love us back. We love because we can. Because we were made to.

In his other great treatise, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith argued that human conscience comes from social relationships, and that the natural empathy produced by being among other people is an essential part of well-being and should guide our actions.

each of us benefits when some of us subsume private goals for the sake of the community, and everyone benefits when everyone cooperates. As the oxytocin studies illustrate, our brains reward us for working well together.

paying taxes is a cheap price for a quiet conscience—much cheaper than actually having to get involved in the lives of their fellow citizens.

Nice and good are different. Being nice involves immediate actions and immediate consequences—you give water to the thirsty and comfort to the afflicted right here, right now. Being good involves living in the world so that you contribute to the welfare of your fellow human beings.

He is certainly not a good citizen who does not wish to promote, by every means in his power, the welfare of the whole society of his fellow citizens." That is Adam Smith talking, the apostle of laissez-faire.

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Many felt a profound malaise at the idea that the sources of benevolence should be just enlightened self-interest, or simply feelings of sympathy. This seemed to neglect altogether the human power of self-transcendence, the capacity to go beyond self-related desire altogether and follow a higher aspiration. This

Christian patriots spend more time washing feet than waving flags.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

I killed one man to save one hundred thousand.

A life lived only for oneself - is a less lived life.

I admire a woman like T.R. "Tina" Threston. When nearly everyone else asks what a charity can do for them, she asks what she can do for a charity. That, my friends, is a rare woman indeed!

Have you ever considered using your medical degree for good?" "I have a lot of student loans.

My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for.

Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.

Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of being. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.

To be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of being. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.

To be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of being. Your life will be a hundred times better for it. This is good advice for anyone at any age, but particularly for those in their twenties.

World is full of nice people,if u cannot find one be one !

Live with dignity. Live for others, that is how one earns respect

Collective responsibility, a sense of the greater good versus just one's own good, and a strong set of collective values are imperative for improving society. These are the aims of all these pieces about our society.