Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

The green tempts me to make the rich the enemy, and take their cheese.

We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

Envy is human nature.

The Englishman is like the dog in the fable. The dog who cannot bear that another dog should have a few bones although the overfed brute is sitting with a bowl full to the brim.

The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles.

The world no longer permits the stronger to kill the weaker, but it allows the wealthy to oppress the poor. Money is holier than man. Human life is less sacred than property. To save a dollar is regarded as a more necessary virtue than to save a human heart. Society cares more for fortune than for truth.

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

As long as the middle class … were convinced that they could make do and possibly prosper, the grudges they felt toward the wealthy were minimal. Sure, they felt a bit envious toward Mr. Megabucks in the gated community, but he was entitled to all his perks as long as the middle class felt OK. Those in the middle (i.e., by definition the majority) are not OK anymore. They feel themselves inexorably sliding down the slope of income inequality and are becoming increasingly angry at the people who assert that a quarter of a million dollars a year ($250,000) is not a lot of money. They are especially irked that some of the people who think this way are running the government.

Capitalists are generating death.

Allah never gave such as this to any people without that giving rise to mutual envy and hatred.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

The modern Left is not driven by fairness. It is guided by an ideology of greed and envy. Those are vices, not virtues.

Jealousy is a hell of a thing. There's a reason it's one of the deadly sins.

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy, jealousy, all that is malignant in human character is nourished by the system. Possession, money, property--on such corrupt standards as these do you people measure happiness and success.

The Superclass tries to promote its values. Ordinary people complain of divine injustice, they envy power, and it pains them to see others having fun. They don’t understand that no one is having fun, that everyone is worried and insecure, and that what the jewels, cars, and fat wallets conceal is a huge inferiority complex.

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

All some folks want is their fair share and yours.

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.