“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.” - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
fine edge of their altruism…
"Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism." - Katherine Fullerton Gerould
creative altruism…
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. - Martin Luther King, Jr.