Envy Quotes - Page 30

• Envy is the root of the egalitarian ethos.

  Robert Stacy McCain

  Roots, Ethos

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• Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute.

  Helmut Schoeck

  Men, Intense, Equal

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• There can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Doubt, Littles, Motivated

  Henry Hazlitt, Hans F. Sennholz (1993). “The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt”, Foundation for Economic Education

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• Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Hate, Justice, Social

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• When you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your anger, jealousy, and envy will disappear, and even your sadness will simply disappear if you don't take things personally.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Strong, Sadness, Upset

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• Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment of the richest paying low or no taxes screams of injustice. You have to have a fair system.

  Charlie Munger

  Taxation, Resentment, Assuming

  Charlie Munger's advice on life and other at the 2003 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 3, 2003.

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• Harvard and Yale concentrated with venture capitalists that got the best calls and brainpower. Very few firms made most of the money, and they made it in just a few periods. Everyone else returned between mediocre and lousy. When returns happened, envy rippled through institutional money management. The amount invested in venture capital went up 10 times post-1999. That later money was lost very quickly. It will happen again. I don't know anyone who successfully resists this stuff. It becomes a new orthodoxy.

  Charlie Munger

  Yale, Venture Capitalists, Stuff

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• The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.

  Aristotle

  Way, Best Way, Deserve

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• There are many things in life more worthwhile than money. One is to be brought up in this our England which is still the envy of less happy lands.

  Alfred Denning, Baron Denning

  Land, Things In Life, Worthwhile

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• I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's so f... happy.

  Noel Gallagher

  Play, Wonder, Drummer

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• If the Angels could envy, they would envy us for Holy Communion.

  Pope Pius X

  Angel, Holy, Communion

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• Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.

  Gautama Buddha

  Organization, Doe, Underestimate

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• Fiercely guard the passions burning inside your heart, so that their flames can safely reach the highest ceilings of success without the eyes of envy.

  Suzy Kassem

  Passion, Heart, Eye

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• Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Evil, Arrogance

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.45, Taylor Trade Publications

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• I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.

  Hal Boyle

  Life, Art, Ambition

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• If envy were the cause of terrorism, Beverly Hills [and] Fifth Avenue ... would have become targets long ago.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Long Ago, Beverly Hills, Fifth Avenue

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• Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer is like a cloud, pushed all around, always dependent on the exterior world. That's what I sometimes feel as a pain and an error.

  Edouard Boubat

  Morning, Pain, Flower

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• I envy people who could just have one drink and not go look for cocaine afterwards.

  Felipe Esparza

  People, Looks, Cocaine

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• High-speed trains in Japan can now reach 375 mph - twice as fast as any public transit train in the United States. America's railroads were once the envy of the world. Today they are in disrepair and we are falling further and further behind the rest of the world. We need to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, including rail. When we do that we not only make our country more productive and efficient, we create millions of new jobs.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jobs, Fall

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• Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror, envy and nostalgia, and only a little to the critical understanding of the social world.

  Allan Sekula

  Photography, Understanding, Mountain

  Allan Sekula, Illinois State University. University Galleries (1999). “Dismal science: photo works, 1972-1996”, Illinois State Univ

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• Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know. I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. The wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Exercise, Thinking

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• In the near future we will not be looking back at the early church with envy because of the great exploits of those days, but all will be saying that He certainly did save His best wine for last. The most glorious times in all of history have not come upon us. You, who have dreamed of one day being able to talk with Peter, John and Paul, are going to be surprised to find that they have all been waiting to talk to you.

  Rick Joyner

  Wine, Waiting, Church

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• There isn't a king or a merchant prince in the whole world that I envy, for I always knew I was born to be a child of destiny and that I was never meant to wring my living from detestable, low, degrading, mean and ordinary kinds of business.

  John Cheever

  Kings, Children, Mean

  John Cheever (1973). “The Wapshot Chronicle”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Oh, you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you!

  Giuseppe Verdi

  Son, Bosoms, Has Beens

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• If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Strong, Taken, Thinking

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