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  • Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

  • There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'

  • The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.

    Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.122
  • ... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

    Distance   Men   Squares  
    George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.255, Penguin
  • I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

    Money   Cat   Politics  
    Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books
  • If you think of life as like a big pie, you can try to hold the whole pie and kill yourself trying to keep it, or you can slice it up and give some to the people around you, and you still have plenty left for yourself.

    Life   Thinking   Pie  
  • When we begin to understand the concept of Karma we will never ever blame God for anything that happens to us. We will realise that we are responsible for all that happens to us. As we sow, so shall we reap. Rich or poor, saint or sinner, miser or philanthropist, learned or illiterate ... This is the Universal Law that applies to individuals, to whole communities, societies, nations and races. As we sow, so shall we reap.

  • I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.

    Anthony Trollope (2008). “North America”, p.254, Applewood Books
  • I certainly think Halle Berry's a wonderful role model. She's a terrific stepmother and has shown that in so many beautiful ways and has made such enormous strides for women culturally and such great successes as an actress and philanthropist.

    Interview with Katie Hampson, www.dailymail.co.uk. August 4, 2004.
  • The problem for most of us is that the cup has holes, so love goes out just as easily as it goes in. What happens when people are living in the unconditional state of love, however, is that they recognize they are the ocean of love; they know it's their essence. And they naturally overflow in this love. So instead of being love beggars, they become love philanthropists.

    Ocean   Love Is   Essence  
    Source: theindiespiritualist.com
  • An environmentalist that eats meat is like a philanthropist that won't give money to charities.

    Giving   Meat   Charity  
  • The first time I remember our being socially in the same place was after we graduated and [author, investment counselor, philanthropist, and fellow 1950s Yalie] Peter Wolf had a party at his house in the Hamptons.

    Party   House   Firsts  
    Source: fourtwonine.com
  • The best philanthropy is not just about giving money but giving leadership. The best philanthropists bring the gifts that made them successful-the drive, the determination, the refusal to accept that something can't be done if it needs to be into their philanthropy.

    "Treasury reveals how little tax the super-rich pay" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2012.
  • Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.364
  • The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain its presence - no mission to fulfill - a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist - a puzzle to the botanist - an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man.

    Flower   Artist   Men  
    James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.100, Courier Corporation
  • I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?

  • I'm right now standing inside Hamilton-Selway Fine Art as an artist, as a philanthropist, as a child of God, and more importantly as a human being.

    Art   Children   Hamilton  
  • If every young person pursued their greatest passion and then said, 'What part of this can be applied to social good?' You don't have to choose between being successful and being a philanthropist.

  • Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.181, University of Georgia Press
  • Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  • Being a philanthropist doesn't mean necessarily writing a huge check. It can mean mobilizing your community to start asking questions.

    "A Woman's Work ... / India native Kavita Ramdas spins her privileged background into gold for underprivileged women at S.F.'s Global Fund for Women" by Jonathan Curiel, www.sfgate.com. November 10, 2002.
  • There is the sheer amount of Franklin's wisdom. And the talent. Franklin played four instruments. He was the nation's leading scientist and inventor, plus a leading author, statesman, and philanthropist. There has never been anyone like him.

    Four   Talent   Franklin  
  • I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ.

    "Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life". Book by Jon Lee Anderson, 1997.
  • To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great lawyers or philanthropists or business people or work their way up the political ladder. I happened to become known from a different route.

    Running   Names   Space  
  • Behind every liberal philanthropist fortune is a huge capitalist score. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett can afford now to be liberal - an expensive indulgence - because in their early incarnations they were no-holds-barred capitalists who made lots of enemies conducting business without mercy and in search of pure profit.

  • For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is interesting, romantic, moral, self-flattering, and public-spirited all at once. It satisfies a great number of human weaknesses at once. To go on and plan what a whole class of people ought to do is to feel one's self a power on earth, to win a public position, to clothe one's self in dignity. Hence we have an unlimited supply of reformers, philanthropists, humanitarians, and would-be managers-in-general of society.

    William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.97, Ludwig von Mises Institute
  • There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their creditors always outnumber their disciples, they owe humanity more than she will ever owe them.

  • Oran Hesterman is a brilliant philanthropist. He had so many progressive ideas about shifting the way that money is given out. He wanted to focus on the creation of healthy, community-based food systems in historically excluded communities and now an advocate, an ally, and obviously lots of capital won't be able to go into these communities now.

  • Michael Bealmear is a philanthropist, and he has become interested in the issue of refugees, and he proposed that we do an event in his community, where we could dedicate an entire evening focused on the global refugee crisis, focused primarily on Afghanistan.

    "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Pete Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 2009.
  • I'm not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn't keep me up at night.

    Night   Issues   Care  
    Source: paulsohn.org
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