Altruistic Persons

Famous quotes containing the words altruistic and/or persons:

    “Women are to be lifted up to a physical equality with man by placing upon their shoulders equal burdens of labor, equal responsibilities of state-craft; they are to be brought down from their altruistic heights by being released from all obligations of purity, loyalty, self-sacrifice, and made free of the world of passion and self-indulgence, after the model set them by men of low and materialistic ideals.”
    —Caroline Fairfield Corbin (b. c. 1835–?)

    “One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.”
    —Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)