(21 quotes found)
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.”
Tenzin Gyatso The 14th Dalai Lama
“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
Albert Pike
“We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.”
Mother Teresa
“If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.”
Ayn Rand
“A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one”
Henry Louis Mencken
“I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.”
Aneurin Bevan
“Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?”
“They have done impossible things in impossible places. I think it's a great use of that altruism that is built into the Peace Corps. These are people who want to give of themselves.”
James Walsh
“Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning”
Benjamin Franklin
