Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-4] of 4 Envy quotesEnvy QuotesEnvy Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.~ Sir Winston Churchill History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy… These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened.~ Benjamin Franklin I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy -- I don't disparage envy but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Many of those who attack capitalism know very well that their situation under any other economic system will be less favorable. Nevertheless, with full knowledge of this fact, they advocate a reform, e.g., socialism, because they hope that the rich, whom they envy, will also suffer under it.~ Ludwig von Mises Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print