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“There’s no such thing as altruism.”
“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.”
“Altruism is innate, but it’s not instinctual. Everybody’s wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.”
“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.”
“Social motherliness has made women’s struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.”
“In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.”
“Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.”
“Altruism, especially involving basic freedoms, can be what shareholders value most.”
“Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.”
