Causes Quote by Helmut Schoeck

“The utopian desire for an egalitarian society cannot, however, have sprung from any other motive than that of an inability to come to terms…

— Helmut Schoeck

Envy suggests inferiority.

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

— Anonymous

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

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

— T. S. Eliot

“Judgement is so often a thwarted, frustrated expression of envy.”

— Elizabeth Winder

The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not…

— Henry Hazlitt

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself…

— William Hazlitt

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

— Pindar

“Envy is, in a sense, an intentional feeling that paradoxically undermines its own intentionality.”

— Sianne Ngai

It is better to arouse envy than pity.

— Publilius Syrus

Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and…

— Charles Caleb Colton