Quotes About Altruism

All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness.

If a person is not living for others, it does not mean he knows how to live for himself. One prefers anyone - a mother, a lover, a friend - who knows how to live for herself. Such knowledge is not selfishness.

Feel good, be good, and do good.

Love is the ultimate state of human being where compassion prevails and kindness rules.

Sacrifice is total nonpresence of the I. N

Compassion is the divine compass

Kensuke and his wife had, like all bored people, a sense of kindness that was close to disease.

It is because human beings always think of living for some kind of ideal, and they soon get bored of living just for themselves.

I don't have a life of my own. I've put myself and my life at the service of the people. If necessity dictates I run, I run.. go to jail, I go to jail.. die, I die.My private aspirations are exactly the general aspirations of the people.

Morality doesn't mean 'following divine commands'. It means 'reducing suffering'. Hence in order to act morally, you don't need to believe in any myth or story. You just need to develop a deep appreciation of suffering.

Yet Smith's claim that the selfish human urge to increase private profits is the basis for collective wealth is one of the most revolutionary ideas in human history – revolutionary not just from an economic perspective, but even more so from a moral and political perspective. What Smith says is, in fact, that greed is good, and that by becoming richer I benefit everybody, not just myself. Egoism is altruism.

Morality doesn't mean "following divine commands." It means "reducing suffering." Therefore in order to act morally, you don't need to believe in any myth or story.

Egoism is altruism.

A wise old man was asked what he learned about the meaning of life. "Well," he answered, "I have learned that I am here on earth in order to help other people. What I still haven't figured out is why the other people are here.

What Smith says is, in fact, that greed is good, and that by becoming richer I benefit everybody, not just myself. Egoism is altruism.

A wise man was asked what he learned about the meaning of life. 'Well,' he answered, 'I have learned that I am here on earth in order to help other people. What I still haven't figured out is why the other people are here.

La moral no significa «seguir los mandatos divinos». Significa «reducir el sufrimiento».

Happiness is the purpose of humans so it must need to be for the good of others otherwise one's happiness could hurt many others."

Humanity is about raising up each other for good."

Humanity must need to continue because humanity is about humans and humans are nothing without humanity."

Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.

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

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."—RALPH WALDO EMERSON

And we know that we really live only when we really give.