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Definition of Philanthropist

Philanthropist

  1. One who practices philanthropy; one who loves mankind, and seeks to promote the good of others.

Philanthropist Quotations

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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'.
Ronald Reagan

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
Lady Gaga

Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.
Sylvester Stallone

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.'
Muhammad Yunus
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Philanthropist Translations

philanthropist in French is philanthrop
philanthropist in German is Menschenfreund

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