Helmut Schoeck quotes
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“The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.”
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“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.”
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“Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.”
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“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.”
-- Helmut Schoeck
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.15, iUniverse
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