Quotes About Altruism

Elijah, as always, is being unusually kind. While he himself is not lonely, he doesn't mind talking to lonely people. He is the Mother Teresa of banter.

Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good.

It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than we are to find it in service to ourselves.

I am the furthest thing from a do-gooder. I am venal and flib and too clever by half, I know, but the thrill of the most brilliantly quicksilver aperÒ«u is no match for the self-interested high I get from having done someone a good turn. You'd think I'd do more good turns as a result, but there you go.

The collective delusion here is overwhelming narcissism posing as altruism.

We give anonymously because the sackfuls of thank-you letters break our hearts with their clumsy handwriting and hopeless phonetic spelling.

You're not supposed to talk about your good deeds, I know. It effectively negates them and in the process makes people hate you.

You just take and take don´t you? Out there with your thumb in the air—not a care in the world, just grabbing whatever you can get. Yes, sir, you just take and take until you´re ready to burst. But what about giving? Did you ever think about that? Of course not—you´re too busy taking, Mr. Handout, Mr. Gimmee, Gimmee, Gimmee.

Not giving is no different than taking.

You're not supposed to talk about your good deeds, I know. It effectively negates them and in the process makes people hate you. If there's a disaster, for instance, and someone tells me he donated five thousand dollars to the relief effort—this while I gave a lesser amount, or nothing at all—I don't think, Goodness, how bighearted you are, but, rather, Fuck you for making me look selfish.

The guilt applies only to those things that are being given away for free.

people aren't foolish as much as they are kind.

The most miserable people in the world are the people who are selfish and self-centered and who won't do anything for the good of others but only for themselves.  These are the ones who are the furthest from the Kingdom of God.  The Kingdom of God is God's all out answer to man's total needs.  The Kingdom of God is something we live.  We know and experience the Kingdom of God only to the extent that we practice it.

She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.

A cynic once said that the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.

El deseo debe estar presente para que tenga lugar el acto de dar.

He was thinking that if he had his life to live over again he would begin at once to find happiness in other people's happiness.

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

I feel like I'm a nice character, and I don't have my own agenda.

We must be agents of love.

I'm my mother's son, so when it comes to altruism and understanding how to do things to benefit a person's life... the women in my life have been much better than the men.

There's no such thing as altruism.