Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule … - Helmut Schoeck

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The performances in the future would be like an audience wired to somebody who was sort of instigating, and then moment-to-moment creation would be transmuted individually.

Helmut Schoeck

Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.

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The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself

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Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place.

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To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.

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We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.

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Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute.

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That is the responsibility of the artist, of the actor, to inhabit these roles and put on somebody else's shoes. It's the responsibility and the gift of what it is I get the opportunity to do.

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If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality.

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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

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In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

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