Character Quote by Erich Fromm

“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feelings as “moral indignation,” which permits envy or hate to be acted out under…

— Erich Fromm

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

— Doris Lessing

Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

— Anonymous

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

— Bertrand Russell

“Fundamental disposition towards others, assuming the character either of Envy or of Sympathy, is the point at which the moral virtues and vices of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always,…

— Monica Furlong

“With the wise man, what he has does not cease to be enjoyable because some one else has something else. Envy, in fact, is…

— Bertrand Russell

Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in…

— Bertrand Russell

If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally…

— Bertrand Russell

Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, not from…

— Alexander Theroux

Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the…

— Jeremy Collier

Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.

— Allen W. Wood