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Tag Name "Altruism" (139)

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Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a whole. Collectivism states that, in politics, society comes first and the individual must obey. Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics.
Andrew Bernstein
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Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism.
Elliott Sober
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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
Ambrose Bierce
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Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.
Douglas Horton
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He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.
William Blake
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To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivation for action. For you are not powerless... You know why the hard questions must be asked. It is not altruism, it is self-preservation-survival.
Audre Lorde
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Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.
Alan Dershowitz
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Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an empirical point of view - which scorn (fait fi, Fr.) virtue and altruism - regarded as insane or fools but, from a moral standpoint, they are heros who do honour (qui honorent, Fr.) humanity.
African Spir
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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... Don't mistake any of this for altruism...Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better.
Larry Ellison
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Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons.
Arundhati Roy
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You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.
Jean Renoir
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I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.
Woody Allen
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
Richard Dawkins
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Forgiveness is the most effective way of dealing with arguments altruism and forgiveness bring humanity together so that no conflict, however serious, will go beyond the bounds of what is truly human.
Dalai Lama
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There is a growing movement called effective altruism. It's important because it combines both the heart and the head.
Peter Singer
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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
John Lancaster Spalding
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If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released.
Albert Schweitzer
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Altruism became the sole legitimate motivation for giving a kidney. And it is a partial - I say a partial failure.
Sally Satel
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
E. O. Wilson
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Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
Joseph Conrad
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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.
Deepak Chopra
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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.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Smile, it's free therapy.
Douglas Horton
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