Community Quote by Dorothee Solle Download Open image “A competitive society is a society of envy.” — Dorothee Solle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Competition Envy Jealousy
Competitiveness is just as much a part of our nature as empathy. The ideal, in my view, is a democratic system with a social… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
It is true that a competitive market is not the whole of society. A great deal depends on the qualities of the population and… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
“The pursuit of social success, in the form of prestige or power or both, is the most important obstacle in a competitive society.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle. — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
“we begin to create separations and become judgmental of others. Contrary to what the world around us is trying to teach, having this type… — Alexis G. Roldan Copy Share Image
We live in a competitive society. To pretend that it is not there is ridiculous. That is how the whole planet is set up.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people… — Major Owens Copy Share Image
I'm a competitive person, but I have never understood people's competitiveness at the expense of their colleagues. — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change. — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
Market society is a game where you win by making sure other people are better off with you than without you. — David Schmidtz Copy Share Image
We have the misconception that competitiveness means winning at all costs, but that's not what competition is. Competition is just doing your best and… — Lisa Rainsberger Copy Share Image
What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities. — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
A language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently. — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
God has no other hands than ours. If the sick are to be healed, it is our hands that will heal them. If the… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
“We are afraid of religion because it interprets rather than observance. Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it… — Dorothee Sölle Copy Share Image
With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity. — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
The more people anticipate the elimination of suffering the less strength they have actually to oppose it. Whoever deals with his personal suffering only… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
Our whole life consists of despairing of an answer and seeking an answer. — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition, and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here, too, the basic experience… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive. — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image