Matt Sydal Quotes

Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.

The values that East Asian culture upholds, such as the primacy of group interests over individual interests, support the total group effort necessary to develop rapidly.

The collective comes before the individual.

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

The relative absence from the national [Japanese] character of egotistical individualism has been the saving of an empire; has enabled a great people to preserve its independence against prodigious odds.

If we don't spend our time on this earth looking out for one another, what are we really doing with our lives?

If you don't look out for others, who will look out for you?

Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

The act of willingly subtracting from one's own limited store of the good and the agreeable for the sake of adding to that of others reflects the understanding that individual happiness needs a base broader than the mere satisfaction of selfish passions. From there, it is not such a large step to the realization that respecting the susceptibilities and rights of others is as important as defending one's own susceptibilities and rights if civilized society is to be safeguarded.

A community is only a community when the majority of its members are making the transition from 'the community for myself' to 'myself for the community'.

There is no real separation between self or no-self. Anything you do for yourself you do for the society at the same time. And anything you do for society you do for yourself also.

We are all here on earth to help others.

She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.

America's not just [about] looking out for yourself, it's not just about greed, it's not just about trying to climb to the very top and keep everybody else down. ... Hard work, that's a value. Looking out for one another, that's a value. The idea that we're all in it together and [that] I'm my brother's keeper and [my] sister's keeper, that's a value.

THE ONLY REAL FAILURE IS TO FAIL OTHERS.

No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.

Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

Be more concerned with everybody else than yourself.

I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about others.