Stephen Moore Quotes

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

All some folks want is their fair share and yours.

There's all kinds of envy out there on the Left.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive some award, I covet it. But this is not me at my best, and these are not the feelings we would instill and promote in our children.

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

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.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

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.

There is no fairness in partisan politics.

The poor man … will be swayed by his sense of injury against the men who try to hold what they have improperly won… the most awful passions will be let loose.

All I know is that Conservatives aren't interested in helping anybody but themselves get richer.

The world view of the underdog socialist is encapsulated in the notion that the establishment has mastered the game of reason, judgment and statistics, leaving the left with emotion. Its heart is in the right place.

I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.

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

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

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

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon 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.

The point of Left-wing propaganda is to make us feel powerless.

I think the thing with 'Rise Up,' something that really does bug me, is that America has become very divided.

Vice is Washington's signature. A fish rots from the head, and Washington has led our country into vice, greed, selfishness, and the mockery and destruction of human life.

I think there are phrases that are exciting to a certain group within the Democratic Party but scare the crap out of other people.