The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.
It is no accident that narcissists and altruists often have a magnetic attraction to one another. Can you see how perfect the fit is? The altruistic feels the need to selflessly serve others and this is just what the narcissist wants. Narcissists wan...
We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.
The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.
Being an altruist I have an urge in mylife to help poor's but im not Bill Gates
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.
One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose.
'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.
Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear.
Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.
Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]
Great compassion is the root of altruistic action, the object of amazement to the world;there is no greater source of help and happiness.
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.
I'm not totally altruistic. I've always had great career ambitions. But it has to come out in an organic way. If you push yourself out beyond where you are supposed to be, there's this pressure.
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic towards them. They feel slightly repulsed by it.
Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization, I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'
the happiest among us will be most altruistic, most distinct, most benevolent and most awkward to some of us in a way.
If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitpr...
We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.
