Ben Shapiro

Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.

American Author

Alan Dershowitz

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

American Lawyer

Jonathan Sacks

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

British Clergyman

David Mixner

Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.

American Activist

Bart Starr

We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in us all to help others who are in danger.

American Athlete

Dustin Lance Black

I'm my mother's son, so when it comes to altruism and understanding how to do things to benefit a person's life... the women in my life have been much better than the men.

American Director

Deepak Chopra

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

American Speaker

Aneurin Bevan

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.

Welsh Politician

Fethullah Gulen

I have spent over 50 years preaching and teaching the values of peace, mutual respect and altruism.

Turkish Activist

Richard Dawkins

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

English Scientist

Altruism has a positive meaning and is associated with kindness, making it fitting for commendations.

Positive Connotation

Use 'altruism' when discussing voluntary work or charity, where there is no expectation of a reward.

Humanitarian Context

Altruism is the opposite of self-interest; it's helping others, often with a cost to oneself.

Not Self-Interest

In biology, 'altruism' refers to animals or insects acting for the group's benefit, not just humans.

Beyond Humans

Discussing 'altruism' in biology often relates to species survival and evolutionary advantages.

Evolutionary Purpose

Kin altruism is a biological concept where organisms help relatives survive, possibly at their own expense.

Kin Selection

 and how confident they feel about that knowledge. But some of the most amazing things about dolphins are their senses of empathy, altruism, and attachment. The habit of helping injured individuals extends across the species barrier as evidenced by the many accounts of dolphins carrying humans to the surface to breathe.

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 leave residual benefits upon the individual basically they leave increased feelings of compassion and empathy towards others increased altruism and increased feelings of general well-being now in the study they defined as an experience of such perceptual expansion such perceptual

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 These behaviours can be seen in close-knit elephant families, usually made up of the dominant female or matriarch, her daughters and her calves. Showing altruism or selflessness, the family will all pitch in to help rear youngsters and protect them in times of danger.

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 it matters just as much to all of these people. So I think reason is not just some neutral tool to help you get whatever you want. It does help us to put perspective on our situation. And I think that's why many of the most significant people in effective altruism

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 to understand why he did it, what forces within him caused him to make the choice that I owe my life to, to risk his own life to save the life of a stranger? In other words, what are the causes of his or anybody else's capacity for altruism?

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 is a capacity even more important than their sense of empathy, altruism, and justice. Elephants are the only non-human animals to mourn their dead, performing burial rituals and returning to visit graves.

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 paper about altruism in humpback whales, about how humpback whales have altruistic behavior towards other animals, not just their own species but other animals. Altruism is a true act of kindness,

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 disadvantage for the next higher level selfishness beats altruism within groups altruistic groups beat selfish groups everything else is commentary life at every level is constantly

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 we can recover those amazing components of our our altruism and cooperation. Where there is atomization, we can build a thriving civic life with a rich participatory culture.