Top 14 Helmut Schoeck Quotes
#1. Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.
Alan Bullock
#2. The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.
Helmut Schoeck
#3. The same basic tools we've used for thousands of years to connect with people, to draw them in and to hold their attention will always work, even if we're telling our stories 140 characters at a time.
Shawn Amos
#5. 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.
Helmut Schoeck
#6. A whole roasted lamb - stuffed with lamb sausages, organ and glandbreads, dried fruits and currants, tomato/garlic/onion mush, the entirety cardamomated, corianderized, cumined, cloved - was brought out on a spit, danced around. The carcassbearers were women, further gorgeous bursting Slavs,
Joshua Cohen
#7. 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
#8. 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.
Helmut Schoeck
#9. It was the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high.
J.K. Rowling
#10. Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.
Helmut Schoeck
#11. I guess this year I'm going to find out if I'm good enough or not. If I'm not, I don't care. I'll do something else, it's not a biggie.
Joss Stone
#12. 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.
Helmut Schoeck
#13. I never felt like I had anything really figured out. When I was a teenager, it was all about teenagers having an 'identity crisis.' That was the phrase that was used. But in my early 20s, I was still like, 'When am I going to be over that?'
Kim Gordon
#14. The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself
Helmut Schoeck
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