Quotes related to James 3:16
It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]
— Publilius Syrus
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
— John Lennon
Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.
— Dorothy Sayers
You give us long enough to argue over something and we will bring you in proofs to show that the Ten Commandments should never be ratified.
— Will Rogers
Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.
— William Hazlitt
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
— William Hazlitt
The spirit of party opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.
— George Washington
Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
— Jonathan Edwards
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
— Joseph Addison
Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.
— Anais Nin
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
— St. John Chrysostom