Coal Quote by Henry Hazlitt

But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really, at bottom,…

— David Hume

“For envy makes no claim whatsoever about the moral superiority of the envier, or about the “goodness” of his or her state of lacking…

— Sianne Ngai

“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 never comes to the ball dressed as envy; it comes dressed as high moral standards or distaste for materialism.

— Martin Amis

People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise the inferior…

— Rafael Sabatini

“Envy! Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity. Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.”

— John Stott

“some people always get more than their share of equality than others”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“An attitude that really works against people is the desire for equality that feeds petty jealousy. For”

— John C. Maxwell

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

“Envy is awful. Unlike jealousy, which comes from the threat of losing what you cherish, envy is a dark desire for things over which…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the…

— Socrates