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" Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped. "

" Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to what makes us human. This is why, from the day Facebook Platform launched in 2007, Causes has been honored to be one of the most popular applications, with over 140 million users. "

" Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species. "

" Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance. "

" I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do. "

Emmanuelle Beart

" I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me. "

" In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time. "

" In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism. "

John Buchanan Robinson

" Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism. "

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

" 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. "

" Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism. "

" There's no such thing as altruism. "

" Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism. "

Nicholson Baker

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