Envy Quotes - page 2

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. (Ivan Illich)
Envy is the ulcer of the soul. View quote
Socrates
I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on. View quote
Oscar Levant
Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need. View quote
Regina Brett
Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. View quote
Bill Clinton
There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world. View quote
Edmund Burke
Envy is the central fact of American life. View quote
Gore Vidal
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or "mathematics envy." View quote
Marvin Minsky
The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these "sins" as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification. View quote
Anton LaVey
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty-and, by which definition, a philosopher-dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security. (Tom Stoppard)
Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and arrogant creatures, who were disgusted with life, abhorred their globe as a vale of tears, and who in their envy and hatred of beauty and joy did themselves as much harm as possible. View quote
Georg Brandes
Envy is a kind of praise. View quote
John Gay
Envy is the basis of democracy. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy but I don't accept it as legitimately my master. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. View quote
Max Beerbohm
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue. View quote
Erich Fromm
The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. View quote
Jim Rohn
By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy. View quote
George Bancroft
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. (Winston Churchill)
Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege. View quote
Voltaire
I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and generosity, but only fleetingly and usually while drunk, so I have little memory. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned. View quote
Robert Lembke
To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation. View quote
Gustav Stresemann