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Helmut Schoeck Quotes:

Helmut Schoeck quotes

Ocupation: Writer

Life: July 3, 1922 - February 2, 1993

Birthday: July 3

Death: February 2

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The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself

Topics: Men, Thinking, Legs, Break A Leg

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We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.

Topics: Reflection, Envy, Achievement

Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place.

Topics: Thinking, Envy, Elements

The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.

Topics: Kindness, Men, Envious

To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.

Topics: Years, Envy, Atheism

Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.

Topics: Men, Envy, Atheism, Supernatural Beings

Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute.

Topics: Men, Envy, Intense

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