Quotes on Altruism

The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.

For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.

Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on.

[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.