Quotes About Altruism

Moral psychology has a metaphysical foundation; self-interest implies community, and community, universality. Egoism has as its contrast altruism; but that contrast is otiose if the good of the self is the good of the others.

Lift your spirits by practicing random acts of kindness

The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

had come to help. He just

Should we in America refuse to alter our lifestyle, I believe we will experience increasing dehumanization - of ourselves- both individually and corporately. To begin to share on a broad scale, therefore, is not just a matter of obedience to God or of altruism but rather a necessary requirement for remaining human.

The ministerial work must be managed purely for God and the salvation of the people, and not for any private ends of our own.

Every man therefore is bound to do all the good he can to others, especially for the church and commonwealth.

We call this the spirit of Ubuntu, that profound African sense that we are human only through the humanity of other human beings.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.

The distinguished economist and philosopher Amartya Sen famously called people who always give nothing in this game rational fools for blindly following only material self-interest: "The purely economic man is indeed close to being a social moron. Economic theory has been much preoccupied with this rational fool.

I want you all to think not only of yourselves and your families but everybody else who is alive. We are all equal, and all of us need helping and there is nobody to help mankind except mankind.

him. It came from Buddhism, the Four Immeasurables. "There are four good things worth practicing. Being kind toward everything alive. Staying level and steady. Feeling happy for any creature anywhere that is happy. And remembering that any suffering is also yours.

May all sentient beings be free from needless suffering.

Kindness may look for something in return, but that doesn't make it any less kind." Perhaps

Each one volunteers to be eaten, so others might be spread far afield.

look for something in return, but that doesn't make it any less kind." Perhaps unlooked-for kindness along the way

I am not preoccupied with collecting more goods and services; quite simply, my desire and effort—every day—is to pay back, to give back to the world a bit of what I have received.

As the Dalai Lama says, "My religion is kindness; my only religion is kindness.

If you want to be important, serve others. And if you want to be at the top, then slave to help everyone else. The

whatever that takes, and then has plenty left over for others. True heroism serves the common good, or it is not really heroism at all.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we do them.

If laying down my life could stop the suffering in the world I'd do it. But I don't believe anything can stop it.

So few people did good in their lives. It was depressing.