"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, American Psychologist

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"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."

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"Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell."

Philip James Bailey, English Poet

Envy, Hell

"Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride."

Arthur C. Brooks, American Author

Envy, Pride, World

"People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves."

Aesop, Greek Author

Envy, People

"Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking."

Bainbridge Colby, American Public Servant

Envy, Hate, Loyalty, Public

"It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you."

Baltasar Gracian, Spanish Philosopher

Envy, May, Order

"As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Envy, Jealousy, Gifts, Perception

"Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Envy, Truth, Social, Desire

"The United States transportation system is the envy of the world."

Jerry Costello, American Politician

Envy, States, United, World

"On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."

Griffin Dunne, American Actor

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"Envy is an insult to oneself."

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian Poet

Envy, Insult

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"Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell."

"Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride."

"People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves."

"Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking."

"It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you."

"As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious."

"Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people."

"The United States transportation system is the envy of the world."

"On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."

"Envy is an insult to oneself."

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"One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways."

"Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide."

"Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys."

"Unrest of spirit is a mark of life."

"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand."

"Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse."

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"The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance."