Glen Duncan Quotes

There are many individuals, companies and even countries operating in what I call a 'me first' mentality, which is effectively a purely competitive approach to life, treating the planet as if it has infinite resources and pitting one country against another for supremacy.

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.

Do unto others, then run.

Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

A villain to me is someone who actively seeks to hurt someone or does things for his own gain.

We kind of have an ingrained, parasitic society. We kind of think it's okay to eat your neighbor.

The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.

All riches come from iniquity, and unless one has lost, another cannot gain.

Our civilization is built on competition, and competition evolves itself crime to so acute an infatuation has the lunacy of self-interest carried our dominant opinion.

The school of laissez faire, of which you seem to be a pronounced advocate, has produced great men in advocating the theory of each for himself, and his Satanic Majesty taking the hindermost

After I asked him [a student] what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement. No decent society can tolerate that definition.

There are a lot of vipers in this industry, people who only have their own interests in mind.

Madonna's like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

It's fun to just be an awful human being.

Sometimes a pinch of sadism is the ingredient that makes victory taste that little bit sweeter.

It's just really frustrating how people are just so selfish in this industry. It makes me very angry.

People are looking for a way to tear down anyone who is successful in any arena. That's the way fans are.

Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.

Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else

Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.