We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every sing — Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every sing — Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every sing — Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every sing — Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every sing — Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
Download Customize

We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
Pin Share Tweet Telegram
Topics
altruism charity compassion empathy gene genes genie ghandi humanity humor humour mahatma ghandi mandela mercy mother teresa motivation motive motives nelson mandela pain philosopher philosophy pleasure satire satirist selfish selfishness selfless selflessness social criticism sympathy teresa unselfish unselfishness

More “Altruism” Quotes

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic — Henry Melvill
Nothing can save you from hate, empty all your treasures and give it to people and one out of the multitudes will curse — Michael Bassey Johnson
Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself? — Cormac McCarthy, The Road
It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for h — W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Even though there is neither much altruism nor equality in the world, there is almost universal endorsement of the value — Brian Leiter, Nietzsche on Morality
Egoism holds, therefore, is that each man's happiness is the sole good--that a number of different things are each of th — G.E. Moore, Principia Ethica
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
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 — Dom Helder Camara Archbishop of Recife in Brazil
The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twil — Hubert H. Humphrey
As mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members — President George Washington
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority — Aristotle
My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a lot of brother — Lee Atwater