“All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can only be refuted by science: Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.” PeopleIfsShouldDesireCertainSufferingWishEnemyAliveSeeingSlaveProsperityFedsHumankind Author:Bertrand Russell
“Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the measure of happiness abated. It laments over prosperity, and sickens at the sight of health. It oftentimes wants spirit as well as good nature.” WantWellsMadeSpiritForceWishGoodnessSightIllProsperityVicesEnvyMaliceMeannessLamentGood Nature Author:Jeremy Collier
“Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and lord it over, whose misery would make her happiness seem all the more extraordinary, whose poverty can be tormented and exacerbated by a display of her wealth. This infernal serpent, pervading the human heart, keeps men from reforming their lives, holding them back like a suckfish.” MenHumansHeartSeemsOrderLeftWishWealthLordPovertyPrideAdvantageMiseryExtraordinaryProsperityDisplayGoddessHuman HeartDisadvantagesSerpent Author:Thomas More
“I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.” MenFeelsWishMaterialsSlaveryProsperityExtinction Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln