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#altruism

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #altruism




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


#colleagues #dismantled #harvard #i #mathematician

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


#among #group #individual #members #mix

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


John Buchanan Robinson


#antithesis #brief #egoism #idealism #interpretation

Clichés aren’t all truisms, but altruism is both.


Benson Bruno


#funny #humor #funny

Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]


R. Alan Woods


#capitalism #free-enterprise #free-markets #greed-good #r-alan-woods

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.


Karl Lagerfeld


#care #caring #designer #ego #happiness

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.


Agatha Christie


#generosity #love #selfishness #love

He himself didn't see it as exceptionally altruistic, because he had understood one can't be truly happy in isolation or, worse, among unhappy people. The best protection against danger, unhappiness and the sordidness of human existence is to be surrounded by people who love you.


Andrew Ashling


#happiness #how-to-be-happy #unhappiness #love

What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?


Virginia Woolf


#inspirational #selflessness #woman #inspirational

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no secret that many people here think that you are a communist.' Rasheed reflected that this probably meant only that he loathed the poverty and injustice endemic to the village, and that he made no particular secret of it.


Vikram Seth


#communism #poverty #social-injustice #family






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