#envy

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

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There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#contains #destructive #envy #feeling #guise

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #alex #back #case #envy

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#drink #envy #everything #i #know

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points. ↗

— Titus Livius

#envy #fire #highest #like #makes

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#envy #forbidden #identify #illegal #need

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter. ↗

— Dave Mustaine

#books #cite #covers #deadly #enlightenment

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#building #constitution #democracy #envy #fair

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. ↗

— Charles Olson

#american #both #defer #envy #i

Envy aims very high. ↗

— Ovid

#envy #high #very