Samaritan Quotes

“The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate. Consider, for example, two of them: mere insatiable curiosity and the desire to do good. The latter is put high above the former, and yet it is the former that moves one of the most useful men the human race has yet produced: the scientific investigator. What actually urges him on is not some brummagem idea of Service, but a boundless, almost pathological thirst to penetrate the unknown, to uncover the secret, to find out what has not been found out before. His prototype is not the liberator releasing slaves, the good Samaritan lifting up the fallen, but a dog sniffing tremendously at an infinite series of rat-holes.”
― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

“Yes, of course we could all use some help. There isn't a person alive without a need. So don't ask the silly question, just figure out how you're going to help and do it!”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Good Samaritan is only good when they think no one else will be the Good Samaritan.”
― Vann Chow

“We were once told that nobody was coming to save us, but that was not true, because we had, and still have a few angels lurking around, clothed in human bodies.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions