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humanitarian

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1. humanitarian - Noun

2. humanitarian - Adjective

3. humanitarian - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature.

Content with right affections and actions toward man; ethical, as distinguished from religious; believing in the perfectibility of man's nature without supernatural aid.

Benevolent; philanthropic.

One who denies the divinity of Christ, and believes him to have been merely human.

One who limits the sphere of duties to human relations and affections, to the exclusion or disparagement of the religious or spiritual.

One who is actively concerned in promoting the welfare of his kind; a philanthropist.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in. Gregory Peck

Art to me is a humanitarian act, and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to affect mankind, to make the word a better place. Jeff Koons

I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser. Mary Harris Jones

My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph. Albert Einstein

Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores. Anthony Weiner

A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying. Boris Yeltsin

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