Quotes of: Altruism Keyword

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed

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...

Jonathan Sacks

Perhaps the most legitimately dispiriting thing about reciprocal altruism is that it is a misnomer. Whereas with kin selection the "goal" of our genes is to actually help another organism, with reciprocal altruism the goal is that the organism be lef...

Robert Wright

There's no such thing as altruism.

Andrew Tobias

Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.

Nicholson Baker

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Ayn Rand

Choose altruism, because selfishism is a lonely, cold, dark hole.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Altruism always lived in my heart. I knew it was there, I knew it from the start

Charmaine J Forde

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

John Buchanan Robinson

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

Samantha Power

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

David Rakoff

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

E. O. Wilson

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

You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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.

Jonathan Haidt

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Richard Dawkins

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.

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

Friendship is that form of altruism that takes its strides faster than anything else does.

Sky Beyond the Clouds

One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could hurt you - and Darwin posited that it might be rooted in maternal instinct, in sacrificing yourself for your children.

Isabella Rossellini

Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go to Paradise.

Isabella Rossellini