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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.”
― ENVY: A Theory of Social Behaviour
― ENVY: A Theory of Social Behaviour
“The utopian desire for an egalitarian society cannot, however, have sprung from any other motive than that of an inability to come to terms with one’s own envy, and/or with the supposed envy of one’s less well-off fellow men. It must be obvious how such a man, even if only prompted by his unconscious, would carefully evade the phenomenon of envy or try to belittle it!”
― ENVY: A Theory of Social Behaviour
― ENVY: A Theory of Social Behaviour
“To say that Mr. Pratt was a "danger to himself and [especially to some] others" is, in view of his act, a masterpiece of understatement. I submit that the South African state-appointed psychiatrist performed a function essentially similar to a priest's when he excommunicates a sinner...”
― Psychiatry and Responsibility
― Psychiatry and Responsibility
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