Philanthropist Quotes - Page 2

• Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking to advance the frontiers of his discipline, the missionary seeking to convert infidels to the true faith, the philanthropist seeking to bring comfort to the needy - all are pursuing their interests, as they see them, as they judge them by their own values.

  Milton Friedman

  Self, Discipline, Goal

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Running, Religious, Literature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.364

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• If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am:
  I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham.
  Each little fault of temper and each social defect
  In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Giving, Attention, Erring

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.537, Oxford University Press

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• Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ideas, Citizens, Lovers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.236

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• Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Intellectual, Trying

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.692, GENERAL PRESS

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• I don't believe all rich people are selfless philanthropists.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Believe, People, Selfless

  "Bernie Goldberg Explains Why We Should Be Thanking Rich Americans". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2010.

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• I am no kind of philanthropist or humanitarian, but it is really nice to get those emails from all over the world of people who said, I had nothing to laugh at or my son was really sick or my husband is really sick and we put on your DVDs and we laughed, thanks for making the real world go away for a little while.

  Jeff Dunham

  Husband, Real, Nice

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• 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.

  Monique Coleman

  Passion, Successful, Social

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• As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

  Eric Alterman

  Jobs, Parent, Example

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• The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.

  Thomas Huxley

  Thieves, Mankind, Murderer

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2004). “Evolution And Ethics”, p.87, 1st World Publishing

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• The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Children, Winning, Men

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sherlock Holmes: The Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.106, Penguin

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• The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.

  George MacDonald

  Eye, Men, Evil

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.1453, e-artnow

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• To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like saying you're a philanthropist who doesn't give to charity.

  Howard Lyman

  Vegetarianism, Giving, Meat

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• A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.

  Austin O'Malley

  Successful, Men, Apples

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• Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Mean, Thinking, Creating

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• ... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

  George Eliot

  Distance, Men, Squares

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.255, Penguin

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• Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.

  Peter B. Lewis

  Want, Flow, Philanthropy

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• The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.

  Isabel Paterson

  Pimp, Alliances, Politician

  Isabel Paterson (2017). “God of the Machine”, p.323, Routledge

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• It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Education, Hope, New York

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• I am an actress, a producer, a philanthropist, a wife, and above all a mommy to my beautiful babies, Leonardo and Valentino.

  Joyce Giraud

  Beautiful, Baby, Wife

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• The people in Coming of Age were far less curmudgeonly than you would think. The greater percentage said that without the young we'd be lost. One woman, a former Southern belle, now 87, a philanthropist, says, "Well, these young, their history's been stolen from them. And what have we done to make them respect us?"

  Studs Terkel

  Thinking, People, Southern

  "The MoJo Interview: Studs Terkel". Interview With Dale Eastman, www.motherjones.com. September/October 1995.

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• 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.

  Bryant Terry

  Focus, Community, Healthy

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• 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.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Humanity, World, Littles

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• Twitter for me is a form of entertainment for the followers and it's also a source of information. I try to tweet things that I think might make people smile, or to share information that I want to get across, like an event like this that can inspire other people to get involved. I try to mix it up. I think that is a reflection of me - a family man, an actor, and a philanthropist.

  Peter Facinelli

  Men, Thinking, Reflection

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• 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

  Sympathy, Grief, Bravery

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.122

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