altruism

• Any kind of altruism, as well as any collective project, is deeply compromised. —  Eurozine articles
• That altruism which is now to displace the command of God is nothing but the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount robbed of its heavenly power, robbed of the great doctrine which underlies the whole sermon. —  The Relations Between Religion and Science Eight Lectures Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year 1884
• "He is one of those free lances of diplomacy who have sprung up during the last ten or fifteen years, the product of that spurious wave of altruism which is responsible for the League of Nations. —  The Great Prince Shan
• She had no mission, nor was she afflicted by that modern form of altruism which is a yearning for notoriety by conspicuous devotion to causes and reforms quite outside her normal sphere of activity. —  The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
• In the presence of the ugliest man Nietzsche blushes,--he blushes for his race; his own particular kind of altruism--the altruism that might have prevented the existence of this man--strikes him with all its force. —  Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none

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