Andy Weir Quotes

The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

It's actually more than 700 case studies that show that, especially in times of crisis, we show our best selves. And we get this explosion of altruism and cooperation. This happens again and again after natural disasters, after earthquakes and after floodings.

People are nicer than economists give us credit for. The economists cannot understand why people would work long and hard to clean up a community after a hurricane. … Most economists don’t have any interest in or understanding of psychology.

Fraternity and compassion are written into nature's DNA.

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

The most important responsibility we have on this planet is to take care of one another.

Everybody needs a helping hand, take a look at your fellow man.

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

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

We are the world.

To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn't mean we have to wash each other's feet every day, but we must help one another.

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

In truth, we are all part of the team of humanity. And as such, we are all obligated to share ourselves, and our talents, for the sake of the team.

We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in us all to help others who are in danger.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him.

I believe people are wonderful. The vast majority of people have never hurt anybody in their lives.