"In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins."

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Source : Joseph Epstein (2003). “Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins”, p.1, Oxford University Press

Joseph Epstein

#Envy Quotes #May Quotes #Sin Quotes

“We are not to throw away those things which can benefit our neighbor. Goods are called good because they can be used for good: they are instruments for good, in the hands of those who use them properly.”
“If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.”
“A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.”
“the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.”

Source : Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”
“In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be constantly reminded that there are still existent Indigenous peoples and communities in North America, but whether left or right, recent immigrant or descendants of settlers, even descendants of enslaved Africans, the Native presence is not a consideration in the day to day life of individuals and municipal, state and national governments.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Sometimes when you grieve, you grieve at a time where you don't really expect it. You might hear a song or you might smell something or see something that might trigger something, and all of a sudden you get hit with this rush of emotion.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“When I go into a restaurant, the waitress who brings me my meal, the cook in the back who prepared it, the delivery men, the wholesalers, the workers in the food-processing factories, the butchers, the farmers, the ranchers, and everyone else in the economic food chain are all being used by God to â€œgive me this day my daily bread.â€”
“Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.”

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