Quotes About Altruism

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself.

To do something you're afraid of, especially for the sake of somebody else, is the very definition of courage.

Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves but the first to rescue when others are endangered.

My dad has always taught me these words: care and share.

He never stopped wanting to save the world.

The plain fact is that we are starving people, not deliberately in the sense that we want them to die, but wilfully in the sense that we prefer their death to our own inconvenience.

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more hemophiliacs.

Christian faith, which is at its heart about self-giving—God's self-giving and human self-giving—and not about self-imposing.

As a counterbalance to the list of seven deadly sins, the church in the Middle Ages came up with a list of seven works of mercy: to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, house the homeless, visit the sick, ransom the captive, bury the dead.

If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?

God's gifts are best used when we give them away in serving those who have less.

Our need to give is every bit as desperate as the poor's need to receive.

Go gently into the day. Honor your idealism, resist cynicism. Keep your heart open to the world, try and make the world better. Don't give up.

Periodically Willis's mother would snatch her family's own food off the table and take it round to neighbours, replying to her son's protests: "Stop whining! You're hungry. They're starving!"84

It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, whether they are worth having or not. And this they must do, even with the prospect of death.

Caring about the happiness of others, we find our own.

not to care for any of his belongings before caring that he himself should be as good and as wise as possible, not to care for the city's possessions more than for the city itself, and to care for other things in the same way.

I mean this: we were right to agree that good men must be beneficent, and that this could not be otherwise.

And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?

Když Tv?j pÃ…â"¢ítel padne, nemáÅ¡ se radovat, ale ani mu nemáÅ¡ pomoct vstát.

Conceit does not sit well with martyrdom.

Her eyes burned, her muscles ached, but in some strange and secret place, she was happy to finally be doing something that wasn't just protecting herself, but protecting other people, too.