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Quotations regarding 'Altruism'

6 entries

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, Welsh Politician (1897-1960)

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

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist (1941- )

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, -

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., American Leader (1929-1968)

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

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer (1905-1982)

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

John Buchanan Robinson, American Politician (1846-1933)

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