Jerome Boateng Quotes

I'm sure that it's a universal experience, but I wonder if it gets exacerbated more in Los Angeles, where people are constantly looking over at the other people, going, 'Why don't I have that? I want that. Their table looks warmer.'

Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

I totally cared - that I didn't have access to the money to get the coolest clothes ate away at me.

I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a really nice truck. But it's a Durango and I like frontin'! I like to ride by and show off.

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

I believe in status symbols.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that is your neighbor's.

In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.

When are four women ever happy for another woman getting something they'd love to have? Tell me that.

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

I've just started to get really envious when I go into people's houses and see books on a shelf.

When I was a lad, my parents and all their equivalents never lusted after other people's riches or success.

Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.

Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.

If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.

It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach.

Scheme not to make what's Another's your own; Be not a Dog for the sake of a Bone.