Quotes and Sayings about Altruism

"Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish."
- Richard Dawkins
(Related: Altruism, Generosity)

"Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism."
- Katherine Fullerton Gerould
(Related: Men, Altruism, Possession)

"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.
(Related: Altruism, Darkness, Light, Man, Selfishness, Will)

"If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject."
- Ayn Rand
(Related: Men, Morality, Civilization, Altruism)

"In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism."
- John Buchanan Robinson
(Related: Altruism, Idealism)