"We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other."

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Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

— Ayn Rand