Carmen Yulín Cruz Quotes

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.

There's no such thing as altruism.

Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

He was a patient man, a kind man, a man who cared about animals and human beings, all qualities not to be devalued, but James Herriot was not a saint. I tried so hard to play against some of the scripts that implied that he was a saint, but I don't think I was always altogether successful.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

I'm not selfish at all.

Harvey never had an original idea or thought in his life. I was out wandering around the country doing charity benefits, mainly, when I asked him to come along.

When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.

Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.