Quotes about Altruism
It is higher and nobler to be kind.
- Mark Twain
Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.
- Mark Twain
Do right for your own sake, and be happy in knowing that your neighbor will certainly share in the benefits resulting.
- Mark Twain
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
On the parable of the Good Samaritan: I imagine that the first question the priest and Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But by the very nature of his concern, the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer