Quotes About Altruism

My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it.

My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases Jubal Harshaw.

The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

Love' is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part…and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.

v naÅ¡em systému je každý voli? a úÃ…â"¢edník ?lovÄ›k, který prokázal dobrovolnou a t?žkou službou, že klade dobro skupiny nad osobní výhody.

La ambición del corazón es pura. No compite con nadie y no hace daño a nadie. De hecho, le sirve a uno de tal manera que sirve a otros al mismo tiempo.

The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.

when you truly love someone, you will be there every second they need you to! no matter what they are doing or what they want to be doing

For he that contributes only to his own welfare soon finds little to work for. He that contributes only to the welfare of others soon finds too much of others and has lost the appreciation of self, or of its ideals." (3478-2)

Administering to others is the best way to help self. More individuals become so anxious about their own troubles, and yet helping others is the best way to rid yourself of your own troubles . . . Then what are you grumbling about because you dislike your mother? She dislikes you as much, but change this into love. Be kind, be gentle, be patient, be longsuffering, for if thy God was not longsuffering with thee, what chance would you have? 5081-1

You give of yourself so that someone else can achieve their goal.

Rasa bersalah menggerakkan seseorang untuk melakukan kebaikan.

should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.

A veces pienso que todo lo que hizo, dar de comer a los pobres de la calle, construir el orfanato, dejar dinero a los amigos necesitados..., era su forma de redimirse. Y en eso, creo, consiste la auténtica redención, Amir jan: en el sentimiento de culpa que desemboca en la bondad.

Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And

Seseorang yang tidak memiliki kesadaran, tidak memiliki kebaikan, tidak akan pernah menderita.

Dan inilah yang aku inginkan untuk kau pahami bahwa kebaikan, kebaikan yang nyata, muncul akibat rasa bersalah.

The love was within her all the time, and its only renewal came from giving it away.

What's the point of being able to do all this if you don't do anything to help your friends?!

This is what the human story is, not the emperors and the generals and their wars, but the nameless actions of people who are never written down, the good they do for others passed on like a blessing, just doing for strangers what your mother did for you, or not doing what she always spoke against. And all that carries forward and makes us what we are.

Sometimes I think it's only post-scarcity that evil exists. Before that, it could always be put down to want or fear. It was possible to believe, as apparently you did, that when fear and want went away, bad deeds would too. Humanity would be revealed as some kind of bonobo, an altruistic cooperator, a lover of all.

I consider my novels, amongst many other things, to be my political activism. I'm interested in portraying futures where there are more cooperative, altruistic, post-capitalist systems that are working well.

N?u ch? hám l?i ích trÆ°á»›c m?t mà không giúp ?? ng??i khác, dù bi?t rõ là h? Ä'ang g?p khó kh?n, thì ngay lúc Ä'ó b?n có th? th?y Ä'i?u Ä'ó có l?i cho mình, nhÆ°ng v? lâu dài, Ä'ó ch?ng khác nào hành vi tá»± g?m nh?m b?n thân mình.