Adolf Hitler Quotes

Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a whole. Collectivism states that, in politics, society comes first and the individual must obey. Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics.

I'm bothered when people don't understand that they have an obligation to use their best measure of devotion, of resources, to sacrifice for the common good.

Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.

Liberty was realized when the citizens were ... willing to sacrifice their private interests for the sake of the community

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.

Societal good comes first for me.

The collective comes before the individual.

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

A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.

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'.

Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means serving the community instead of contenting oneself. We have a word for the basic disposition which underlies conduct of this kind in contrast to egoism and selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' we mean only the ability of the individual to sacrifice himself for the whole, for his fellow men.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Giving is what makes a nation great.

We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years.

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

It's hard to get people to overcome the thought that they have to take care of themselves first. It's hard to get players to give in to the group and become selfless as opposed to selfish.

Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve.

You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.

I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.

As individual life has more and more given place to crowded community life, the rights and privileges once deemed essential to the perfect liberty of the individual are often found to stand in the way of the public welfare, and to breed wrong and injustice to the community at large.

Everyone thinks chiefly of his own, hardly ever of the public interest.

Seek a common good beyond your comfort.