Top 7 Helmut Schoeck Quotes

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

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#2. 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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#3. 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.

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

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

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