Quotes About Altruism

true decency was very different from pathological generosity, because pathological generosity did not take into account the feelings of the people who were the object of the generosity?

That a person who did something for somebody's gratitude was more like a 2-D cutout image of a person than a bona fide person.

As everyone is well aware, it is so difficult to do something nice for someone and not want them, desperately, to know that the identity of the individual who did it for them was you, and to feel grateful and approving towards you, and to tell myriads of other people what you 'did' for them, so that you can be widely acknowledged as a 'good' person.

there might not be angels, but there are people who might as well be angels.

As everyone is well aware, ti is so difficult to do something nice for someone and not want them, desperately, to know that the identity of the individual who did it for them was you, and to feel grateful and approving towards you, and to tell myriads of other people what you 'did' for them, so that you can be widely acknowledged as a 'good' person.

nobody does anything for nothing. ... it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.

Thriftless gives, not from a beneficent pleasure in giving, but from a lazy delight in spending.

A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.

Love loving not itself, none other can.

Love is not a possession to hoard. You give it away. It's a blessing and a balm.

Rare and precious is the truly disinterested man.

Dojela sem tudi, da je ljubezen do ?loveštva zelo nevarno ?ustvo, ker najpogosteje vodi v nasilno osre?evanje ljudi.

All bickering would then cease, and no man would be jealous of his comrade's arms or his passion for glory. As the critical hour approached, everyone would cast away all thoughts of rivalry, and they would see their comrades for what they really were—their closest allies in the struggle for the common good. One

the Greater Good and the Greater Profit are not compatible aims...

it's easy to get outside yourself when you're thinking about someone else.*

Korima sounds like karma and functions the same way, except in the here and now. It's your obligation to share whatever you can spare, instantly and with no expectations: once the gift leaves your hand, it was never yours to begin with.

For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

Gotob royong adalah pembantingan tulang bersama, pemerasan keringat bersama, perjuangan bantu-membantu bersama. Amal semua buat kepentingan semua.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. —John 15:13

he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?

Because I wished for everyone to live, I did everything I could.

You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.

He that would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars," wrote William Blake.