Altruism Quotes

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.

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

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.

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.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.

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

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

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

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do.