Comfortable Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek

Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".

— Thomas Sowell

Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.

— Thomas Sowell

Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Envy is the root of the egalitarian ethos.

— Robert Stacy McCain

Envy is more irreconcilable than hate. It is the most corroding of all political vices and also a great power in our land. The…

— Hans F. Sennholz

Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Envy suggests inferiority.

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out…

— Richard Whately

Certainly, envy is no monopoly of the poor; it makes itself felt in all sections of society; it haunts the court, the library, the…

— Henry Parry Liddon

All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a…

— Pericles

Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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