What's the difference between philanthropic and selfish?

Philanthropic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Philanthropical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A spokesperson for Lim emphasised his involvement with Salford is “philanthropic”, motivated by his interest in developing young players and has nothing to do with Valencia, Mendes or TPO.
  • (2) The big society bank is not philanthropic, and the chances are few charities will be able to afford its interest rate.
  • (3) The charity said it had struggled financially because philanthropic and public donations had shrunk at a time when it had to meet the practical and emotional needs of an increasing number of high-risk vulnerable children who are not being supported by the statutory system.
  • (4) For the billions of the poorest people around the world who rely on philanthropic aid to meet even basic needs, as the saying goes, “beggars can’t be choosers”.
  • (5) That means we must keep the pressure on our political, business and philanthropic leaders to generate the resources to finish the job.
  • (6) When it's then revealed he works with special-needs kids for a living, the audience applauds again, even though victory on The Voice would presumably lead to him ending that philanthropic career in favour of one involving stadium gigs and blowjobs on yachts.
  • (7) Luckily we have great collections, a great programme so we do our best … we are on a hamster wheel.” Blavatnik will join philanthropic names at the V&A such as Weston (the Weston Cast Court), Sackler (the Sackler Centre for Arts Education) and Porter (the Porter Gallery, which houses temporary displays).
  • (8) Famously philanthropic, the company is putting $175m into five research projects including plans to produce lower-cost renewable energy and non-petrol powered cars.
  • (9) Google is also developing driverless cars and its philanthropic arm, Google.org, has invested in green energy projects.
  • (10) Residents’ representatives are now seeing cases of working families cutting back on essentials, or having to visit food banks, in order to pay the rents charged by this apparently philanthropic organisation.
  • (11) The health clinic run in Kalirandu, Indonesia, by Foster Parents Plan, a private philanthropic welfare organization is described.
  • (12) The event is being co-hosted by the Brazilian government and the Children's Investment Fund Foundation, an independent philanthropic organisation.
  • (13) If you bring the low income consumer into the core activity of a regular business rather than as an add-on, philanthropic programme, it means that ultimately those [consumers] will be taken seriously and their needs responded to.” Read more stories like this: Ebola is a product of a destructive and exploitative global economic system Developing nations lose $100bn in tax revenue each year - will G20 reforms help?
  • (14) The theatre, which will run entirely on a commercial basis with no subsidies or philanthropic grants, was described by Hynter as a supplement to the West End .
  • (15) Whatever the cause, the war of words is a disaster for Madonna's complicated relationship with the southern African country , which she first visited in 2006, and renews questions about the wisdom of western celebrities on philanthropic missions to the developing world.
  • (16) Epstein financed the science fair through his philanthropic foundation, which he has also used to donate to universities.
  • (17) But hospitals are competing with a host of other worthy causes for philanthropic dollars.
  • (18) At this point, venture capitalists are drooling over bitcoin and its possibilities,” says Roger Ver, a bitcoin investor and evangelist whose philanthropic donations earned him the nickname “ Bitcoin Jesus ”.
  • (19) He’s defending those who he feels, whose voice he feels, doesn’t get sufficient attention in the national political debate,” said Lenkowsky, a professor of public affairs and philanthropic studies at Indiana University.
  • (20) There may be some raised eyebrows at a billionaire seeking philanthropic support, but the not-for-profit model itself has had a measure of success in the US, and next month the Bureau of Investigative Journalism – a not-for-profit journalistic venture – is due to be launched in the UK.

Selfish


Definition:

  • (a.) Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others.
  • (a.) Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
  • (2) They have been selfish, thinking of what they can achieve with gas.
  • (3) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.
  • (4) A second level of concerted evolution occurs within the functional L1 sequences in a pattern that did not meet our expectations for selfish DNA.
  • (5) Not only did it make every grocery-store run a guilt trip; it made me feel selfish for caring more about birds in the present than about people in the future.
  • (6) Back in 1999 Chris Sidoti, then-head of the Australian Human Rights Commission, called the baby boomers “the most selfish generation in history”.
  • (7) It said Clinton's "cheap shots" had a hidden agenda to discredit China's engagement with Africa and "drive a wedge between China and Africa for the US selfish gain."
  • (8) We propose that REP sequences may be a prokaryotic equivalent of 'selfish DNA' and that gene conversion may play a role in the evolution and maintenance of REP sequences.
  • (9) Although angry when talking about the regime, his campaign grew from selfish motives.
  • (10) After The Arbor's success, said Barnard, the women who would become The Selfish Giant's executive producers, Lizzie Francke at the BFI and Katherine Butler from Film4, "were fantastic about saying, 'What do you want to do next?
  • (11) None of them is British, though there is great anticipation about The Selfish Giant, Clio Barnard's second feature, which premieres in the Directors' Fortnight .
  • (12) Further, it is selfish to suggest that Americans should feel some sort of responsibility for their fellow citizens.
  • (13) In an ideal world, such findings might be interpreted as smart women making smart choices, but instead it seems that this research is just adding fuel to the argument that women who don't have children, regardless of the reason, are not just selfish losers but dumb ones as well.
  • (14) Denial is absurdly selfish (and yet the best selfishness is yet to come).
  • (15) Jeremy Clarkson faced further censure on Saturday after describing people who killed themselves by jumping under trains as "selfish".
  • (16) A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations.
  • (17) In fact, Wilson's arguments are more fundamental and persuasive than Snow's; works on evolution, like Sociobiology and Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, have been absorbed into western cultural life as neatly as any neo-Darwinist could have predicted.
  • (18) Sometimes the athletes are so selfish they won't give up their own stuff to help others."
  • (19) Her newspaper profiles over the years are peppered with self-deprecating references to her sporting ruthlessness: her constant mentions of her selfishness and egotism; her win-at-all-costs, only-gold-medals-matter mentality; or the time she flung her helmet at her boyfriend in frustration after losing a race.
  • (20) This has been encouraged by the press' standard strike narrative: these selfish bastards are striking, this is bad, and it will affect you in this awful unacceptable way of maybe making you slightly late for work.