Jealousy Quote by Nicolás Gómez Dávila Download Open image ““Egalitarian societies strangle the imagination without even satisfying envy.”” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jealousy
“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 Copy Share Image
“People are egalitarian by nature, and unequal societies can never function well due to resentment and dissatisfaction. But” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Few things are more dangerous to an egalitarian ideal than the concept of a chosen people.” — Erika Johansen Copy Share Image
There can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“the egalitarian lifestyles of hunter-gatherers exist because the individuals care a lot about status. Individuals in these societies end up roughly equal because everyone… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“Envy is, in a sense, an intentional feeling that paradoxically undermines its own intentionality.” — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
“Judgement is so often a thwarted, frustrated expression of envy.” — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
“Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“The perfect society to which we aspire in theory may become a powerful enemy of the good society we can become in fact.” — Mark Sagoff Copy Share Image
“Orwell. Wrote a book that said that a totalitarian society sustains itself by the basic selfishness of everybody. When the chips were down, his… — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that those societies which live without government enjoy in their gen'l mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness.” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
“Modern man’s misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is not mediocre.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“The liberation promised by every invention ends with the growing submission of the man who adopts it to the man who manufactures it.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Revolution is progressivist and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance. The revolutionary is a potential government official;… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“The most ominous of modern perversions is the shame of appearing naïve if we do not flirt with evil. (La más ominosa de las… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“When nothing in society deserves respect, we should fashion for ourselves in solitude new silent loyalties.” — Nicólas Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“That's the catch about betrayal, of course: that it feels good, that there's something immensely pleasurable about moving from a complicated relationship which involves… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Being with a jealous person is better than someone who never cares about what you do. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dont hate me cause ur man want me dont be jealouse cause hes thinking of when he says he loves u dont hate him… — Ana Copy Share Image
~Haters only Hate things they cant have and the people they cant be. its just a little thing called Jealousy~ — Im Nothing Copy Share Image
“Love is like a box, fair on every side, jealousy is like a triangle, sharp at every corner,miss is like a circle,endless” — Nabil Marzuq Khairi Copy Share Image
Men are jealous of every woman, even when they dont have the slightest interest in her themselves. — Jan Neruda Copy Share Image
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
I used to get so jealous if my wife liked another band more than my own. Come to think of it, I still do. — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
