Ludwig von Mises Quotes

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

The hater always suffers more than the object of his hatred.

Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

How does hating get started? It's started by the jealous people, and they get mad over the things you have.

Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

Bitterness is so ugly.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Hatred corrodes the container it’s carried in.

Bitterness kills the soul.

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.

If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

Haters are going to hate.

When we feel that we lack whatever is needed to secure someone else's esteem, we are very close to hating him

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

Hatred makes us all ugly.

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.