The INSPIRATION for an altruistic society...

"Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care, and necessary social services..." - Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

"The first man who enclosed a plot of ground and bethought himself of saying 'this is mine' and found others foolish enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many crimes, how many wars, how many misfortunes and horrors would that man have saved the human species, who pulling up the stakes or filling up the ditches should have cried to his fellows: Beware of listening to this imposter; you are lost, if you forget that the fruits of this earth belong equally to us all, and the earth itself to nobody." - Rousseau

"Let us penetrate to the bottom of our hearts, and let us reflect on what the state of things must be in which all men are forced to caress each other and destroy each other, and in which they are born enemies out of duty and crooks out of self interest." - Rousseau

"the only thing that is good without qualification is a good will" - Kant

"One is never free alone, but only in the context of free and meaningful society" - Hegel

"the strong have a duty to protect the weak" - Nietzsche

"Put , without delay, your good intentions into practice, never, leaving a single one to remain only an intention." - H.P. Blavatsky

"The function of Theosophists is to open men's hearts and understandings to charity, justice, and generosity, attributes which belong specifically to the human kingdom and are natural to man when he has developed the qualities of a human being." - - H.P. Blavatsky