Envy Quotes by Helmut Schoeck

Helmut Schoeck

Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.

Envy

Men

Supernatural Beings

Helmut Schoeck

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.

Envy

Intense

Men

Helmut Schoeck

Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place.

Causes

Envy

Thinking

Helmut Schoeck

To claim “humanitarian motives” when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.

Atheism

Envy

Years

Helmut Schoeck

We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.

Achievement

Envy

Reflection

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Envy Quotes by Helmut Schoeck

Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.

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.

Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place.

To claim “humanitarian motives” when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.

We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

William Penn

Susan Cain

Rembrandt

Steve Gleason

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