Pure Altruism Quotes

#1. Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is not pure altruism - there's a profit to be made too.

Richard Branson

#2. Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

Samantha Power

#3. Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.

L.M. Montgomery

#4. I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.

Peter Lynch

#5. He caught a glimpse in the mirror the other day, and how in tarnation did I acquire the face of my father's father?

Colum McCann

#6. Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.

Bruce Lee

#7. In 1950, the [Gallup organization] asked high school kids, are you a very important person? Then 12 percent said yes. Asked again in 2005, 80 percent said, yes, I'm a very important person.

David Brooks

#8. But she'd learned instead to hope in the one Beacon that would always be there, no matter what darkness came her way.

Jody Hedlund

#9. The way he looked all of her and saw all of her. Not the fairest. Not the princess. Just the girl she was. He knew her like no one else did, and she'd thought she'd knew everything about him, too. Who he was. What he'd do.

Sarah Cross

#10. White trash had a way of finding their graves. Along with wife beating and beer sucking, dying was probably their only core competency.

J.R. Ward

#11. That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)

Thomas Jefferson