253 quotes found
“Nothing can save you from hate, empty all your treasures and give it to people and one out of the multitudes will curse you, so live your life to please yourself and not others.”
“Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?”
“It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when they are good for other people as well they are thought virtuous...”
“Even though there is neither much altruism nor equality in the world, there is almost universal endorsement of the values of altruism and equality - even, notoriously (and as Nietzsche seemed well ...”
“Egoism holds, therefore, is that each man's happiness is the sole good--that a number of different things are each of them the only good thing there is--an absolute contradiction! No more complete ...”
“Choose altruism, because selfishism is a lonely, cold, dark hole.”
“I want to feel proud and happy about my selflessness. But what happens when being selfless takes away a big part of your self?”
“Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.”
“Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether were actually motivated by altruism or a desire to hook up or a search for answer...”
“It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.”
“You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicine--hope.”
“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 ...”
“Rabbi Hiyya advised his wife, When a poor man comes to the door, be quick to give him food so that the same may be done to your children. She exclaimed, You are cursing our children [with the sugge...”
“That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)”
“When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camara one of the great prophets of Christian "Liberation theology".”
“The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life the sick...”
“As mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government....”
“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. &It is also in the interests of a tyrant to keep his people poor...”
“My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a lot of brotherhood. The '80s were about acquiring acquiring wealth, power, prestige. I kno...”
“Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.”
