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. . . ENLIGHTENMENT see "KNOWLEDGE" for related links I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. --Kahlil Gibran (18831931) Lebanese poet. _Sand and Foam_ [1926] It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. --Eugθne Ionesco (19091994) Romanian-born French dramatist. _Decouvertes_ [1969] Understanding others is wisdom. Understanding yourself is enlightenment. --Lao-tzu (c. 6th cent. B.C.) the first philosopher of Chinese Taoism and alleged author of the _Tao-te Ching_ (Chinese: Classic of the Way of Power). People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. --Jean Jacques Rousseau (17121778) French philosopher and novelist. _Emile; or, Treatise on Education_ [1762] - One day it was announced by Master Joshu that the young monk Kyogen had reached an enlightened state. Much impressed by this news, several of his peers went to speak to him. "We have heard that you are enlightened. Is this true?" his fellow students inquired. "It is," Kyogen answered. "Tell us," said a friend, "how do you feel?" "As miserable as ever," replied the enlightened Kyogen. --Zen quote Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. --Zen Proverb  . . see "ENTERTAINMENT, HOBBIES, & LEISURE ACTIVITIES" for related links Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. _Don Juan_ [1819], canto II, st. 178 The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. --Sir Joshua Reynolds (17231792) English painter. ----- busker [BUS-kur], noun: A person who entertains (as by playing music) in public places. raconteur (noun): One who excels in telling stories and anecdotes. Korda's tone of voice is affectionate and urbane, his manner that of the accomplished raconteur who never spoils the story with a heavy-handed moral, relying for his effect on the telling anecdote and the apt phrase. --Lewis Lapham, "Adventures in the Book Trade," _New York Times_, [23 May 1999] regale (transitive verb): 1. To entertain with something that delights. 2. To entertain sumptuously with fine food and drink. intransitive verb: To feast. noun: 1. A sumptuous feast. 2. A choice food; a delicacy. 3. Refreshment. Ex. : If I've been away, and the boys do remember to ask about my trip, I remark on their thoughtfulness by saying, 'Thanks for asking!' and then regale them with stories about my journey. --Lucy Calkins, "Raising Lifelong Learners: A Parent's Guide" . . see: "CHEERFULNESS" see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links see "SUCCESS" for other related links Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. --Edward Bulwer-Lytton (18031873) British novelist and politician. Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. --Benjamin Disraeli (18041881) British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 18741880]. Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. He who would do some great thing in this short life must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as, to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. --John Foster (17701843) English clergyman and essayist. "On Decision of Character" I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. --Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault] (18441924) French novelist, man of letters, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. Enthusiasm is the key not only to the achievement of great things but to the accomplishment of any thing that is worthwhile. --Samuel Goldwyn (18821974) American film producer. The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" --Jack Kerouac 19221969) American author and member of the "Beat Generation." _On The Road_ [1957], pt. 1, ch. 1 We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. --Charles Kingsley (18191875) English writer and clergyman. Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness. --Alphonse de Lamartine (17901869) French poet and politician. A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. --Charles Schwab (18621939) American industrialist. Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment. --William Howard Taft (18571930) 27th President of the United States [19091913] and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court [19211930]. None are so old as those who have outlived their enthusiasm. --Henry David Thoreau (18171862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. Age may wrinkle the face, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. --Samuel Ullman (18401924) American businessman and poet. ----- brio [BREE-oh], noun: Enthusiastic vigor; vivacity; liveliness; spirit. desultory (adj.) ['de-zκl-to-ree] Moving disconnectedly without focus; lacking enthusiams, sluggish. desultorily: adverb desultoriness: noun ebullient (adj.) [i-'bul-yκnt] Bubbling over with enthusiasm; also, roiling or agitated. ;void(0)) ENVIRONMENT / ENVIRONMENTALISTS . . see "NATURE" for related links I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. --George Burns [Nathan Birnbaum] (18961996) American comedian. The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind. --Nigel Calder (1931 ) British science writer and environmentalist. Speech, Earth Day [1969]. Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. --Anton Chekhov (18601904) Russian dramatist and short-story wrriter. _Uncle Vanya_ [1897] ^^ "Banning DDT." "Arguably the greatest tragedy of the twentieth century. DDT was the best agent against mosquitoes, and despite the rhetoric there was nothing anywhere near as good or as safe. Since the ban, two million people a year have died unnecessarily from malaria, mostly children. All together, the ban has caused more than fifty million needless deaths. Banning DDT killed more people than Hitler, Ted. And the environmental movement pushed hard for it." "But DDT was a carcinogen." "No, it wasn't. And everybody knew it at the time of the ban." "It was unsafe." "Actually, it was so safe you could eat it. People did just that for two years, in one experiment. After the ban, it was replaced by parathion, which is really unsafe. More than a hundred farm workers died in the months after the DDT ban, because they were unaccustomed to handling really toxic pesticides." "We disagree about all this." "Only because you lack the relevant facts, or are unwilling to face up to the consequences of the actions of organizations you support. Banning DDT will someday be seen as a scandalous blunder." "DDT was never banned." "You're right. Countries were just told that if they used it, they wouldn't get foreign aid." Kenner shook his head. "But the unarguable point, based on UN statistics, is that before the DDT ban, malaria had become almost a minor illness. Fifty thousand deaths a year worldwide. A few years later, it was once again a global scourge. Fifty million people have died since the ban, Ted. --dialogue in Michael Crichton (1942 ) American author, _State Of Fear_ [2004] ^^ ^^ Yellowstone Park, he explained, was the first wilderness to be set aside as a natural preserve anywhere in the world. The region around the Yellowstone River in Wyoming had long been recognized for its wondrous scenic beauty. Lewis and Clark sang its praises. Artists like Bierstadt and Moran painted it. And the new Northern Pacific Railroad wanted a scenic attraction to draw tourists west. So in 1872, in part because of railroad pressure, President Ulysses Grant set aside two million acres and created Yellowstone National Park. There was only one problem, unacknowledged then and later. No one had any experience trying to preserve wilderness. There had never been any need to do it before. And it was assumed to be much easier than it proved to be. When Theodore Roosevelt visited the park in 1903, he saw a landscape teeming with game. There were thousands of elk, buffalo, black bear, deer, mountain lions, grizzlies, coyotes, wolves, and bighorn sheep. By that time there were rules in place to keep things as they were. Soon after that, the Park Service was formed, a new bureaucracy whose sole job was to maintain the park in its original condition. Yet within ten years, the teeming landscape that Roosevelt saw was gone forever. And the reason for this was the park managers-charged with keeping the park in pristine condition-had taken a series of steps that they thought were in the best interest of preserving the park and its animals. But they were wrong. "Well," Bradley said, "our knowledge has increased with time ... " "No, it hasn't," Kenner said. "That's my point. It's a perpetual claim that we know more today, and it's not borne out by what actually happened." Which was this: the early park managers mistakenly believed that elk were about to become extinct. So they tried to increase the elk herds within the park by eliminating predators. To that end, they shot and poisoned all the wolves in the park. And they prohibited Indians from hunting in the park, though Yellowstone was a traditional hunting ground. Protected, the elk herds exploded, and ate so much of certain trees and grasses that the ecology of the area began to change. The elk ate the trees that the beavers used to make dams, so the beavers vanished. That was when the managers discovered beavers were vital to the overall water management of the region. When the beavers disappeared, the meadows dried up; the trout and otter vanished; soil erosion increased; and the park ecology changed even further. By the 1920s it had become abundantly clear there were too many elk, so the rangers began to shoot them by the thousands. But the change in plant ecology seemed to be permanent; the old mix of trees and grasses did not return. It also became increasingly clear that the Indian hunters of old had exerted a valuable ecological influence on the park lands by keeping down the numbers of elk, moose, and bison. This belated recognition came as part of a more general understanding that native Americans had strongly shaped the "untouched wilderness" that the first white men saw-or thought they were seeing-when they first arrived in the New World. The "untouched wilderness" was nothing of the sort. Human beings on the North American continent had exerted a huge influence on the environment for thousands of years-burning plains grasses, modifying forests, thinning specific animal populations, and hunting others to extinction. In retrospect, the rule forbidding Indians from hunting was seen as a mistake. But it was just one of many mistakes that continued to be made in an unbroken stream by park managers. Grizzlies were protected, then killed off. Wolves were killed off, then brought back. Animal research involving field study and radio collars was halted, then resumed after certain species were declared endangered. A policy of fire prevention was instituted, with no understanding of the regenerative effects of fire. When the policy was finally reversed, thousands of acres burned so hotly that the ground was sterilized, and the forests did not growback without reseeding. Rainbow trout were introduced in the 1970s, soon killing off the native cutthroat species. And on and on. And on. "So what you have," Kenner said, "is a history of ignorant, incompetent, and disastrously intrusive intervention, followed by attempts to repair the intervention, followed by attempts to repair the damage caused by the repairs, as dramatic as any oil spill or toxic dump. Except in this case there is no evil corporation or fossil fuel economy to blame. This disaster was caused by environmentalists charged with protecting the wilderness, who made one dreadful mistake after another-and, along the way, proved how little they understood the environment they intended to protect." --dialogue in Michael Crichton (1942 ) American author, _State Of Fear_ [2004] ^^ - Radical greens are masters at devising exaggerated, imaginary and bogus eco-catastrophes - then imposing policies that give them unprecedented power, deprive other people of their freedoms and opportunities, impoverish entire nations, and cause not just impoverishment, but incalculable misery, disease and death. Of course, they claim their actions are motivated by concern for people, animals and the planet. However, the ecological benefits are often minimal to non-existent, the human toll is profound, and the absence of real compassion, ethics or social responsibility is glaring. Two billion people still dont have electricity. In Uganda and many other countries, less than 3 percent of the population has regular access to electricity. Abundant, reliable, affordable electricity is a precondition for health, economic and environmental progress. Without it, people cannot have light and refrigeration in their homes; modern hospitals, schools, factories or water purification plants for their communities; economic opportunity or hope for the future. And yet, radical environmentalists adamantly oppose fossil fuel, nuclear and hydroelectric power projects - and insist on inadequate wind turbines, or little solar panels on huts, instead. This means millions of mothers and girls must continue spending hours each day cutting down forests for firewood, or gathering, drying and storing cow dung to burn. Then they are forced to spend more hours carrying water from lakes and rivers that are often tainted with bacteria - and still more hours breathing acrid, polluted smoke from their cooking and heating fires. The results are easily foreseeable. Wildlife habitats are destroyed. Vast areas are blanketed with dense air pollution. And over 4 million infants, children and mothers die every year from lung infections we never even hear about anymore in the USA - millions more from dysentery and other diseases caused by unsafe water and spoiled food. --Paul Driessen _"Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death", Interview, FrontPageMagazine.com - - The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s the world will undergo famines . . . hundreds of millions of people (including Americans) are going to starve to death. --Paul R. Ehrlich (1932 ) American entomologist and author. Prologue _The Population Bomb_ [1968]. In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish. --Paul R. Ehrlich (1932 ) American entomologist and author. On Earth Day [1970]. I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000. --Paul R. Ehrlich (1932 ) American entomologist and author. [1969 comment.] - - When the Christian Science Monitor recently declared Al Gore "the Rachel Carson of global warming," the former vice president must have bubbled over with pride. There is, it seems, no higher compliment one can bestow on an environmentalist. Next month marks what would have been Carson's 100th birthday, and festivities abound. The author of "Silent Spring" the 1962 book that birthed modern environmentalism and made "DDT" a dirty word Carson is the subject of an exhibit at the National Archives and the star of its Environmental Film Festival this year. Considered a secular saint by some, she was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Important People of the Century and is the posthumous recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. A book due out on Earth Day (when else?), called "Courage for the Earth," is composed entirely of glowing tributes. Front and center is an essay by Mr. Gore, actually a reprint of the introduction he wrote to the 30th-anniversary edition of "Silent Spring." In it he admits that he is a Carson fanboy he says that he has a portrait of her hanging in his office and that, "in spirit, Rachel Carson sits in on all the important environmental meetings of [the Clinton] administration." With all the birthday hullabaloo, now seems as good a time as any for a re-examination of Carson's legacy. The display at the National Archives focuses on Carson's time as a civil servant at the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries a sort of archival "Before They Were Stars" for green groupies. It presents early evidence, as the exhibit has it, of her "gift for turning dry scientific writing into prose easily understood by lay readers." Carson, a marine biologist by training, retired from government service after a trio of books on the sea brought her a decent income and modest literary stardom. Her next project, "Silent Spring," did rather more it changed the world. In it, she wrote: "As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life," causing, among other horrors, "spring...unheralded by the return of birds." The book decried insecticides like DDT as destroyers of ecosystems and threats to human health. The following year, CBS aired the hour-long special that brought her anti-pesticide manifesto to a wider audience, "The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson." CBS received more than 1,000 letters of protest and lost at least two major sponsors chemical companies feared the public's panicked response to Carson's claims. Until last month, the television program was moldering in the National Archives' vaults. At the time of the controversy, DDT was used widely as an insecticide on U.S. farms. Since World War II, it had also proved remarkably effective at controlling insect-borne diseases, but Carson essentially ignored that fact; so have her successors. Some of Carson's star anecdotes about DDT's carcinogenic qualities turned out to be flawed: Her tale of "a housewife who abhorred spiders" spraying her basement in August and winding up dead of "acute leukemia" by October seems absurd to the modern reader, as does the man who winds up hemorrhaging in the hospital due to a "severe depression of the bone marrow" just "a short time" after spraying for roaches. Neither cancer could have been caused by DDT in so short a time. Partly as a result of Carson's work, the U.S. banned DDT in 1972, around the same time as most of the developed world. In 2001, the Stockholm Convention, a global treaty, banned DDT as part of a "dirty dozen" of agricultural chemicals. The convention contains a tightly circumscribed exception for continued public health use, but even that exception almost didn't make it into the final document. Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund and more than 300 other environmental groups fought tooth and nail against it. In recent years, many such groups tried to get a complete ban on all DDT uses by 2007 in time for Carson's birthday. To what effect? The World Health Organization now estimates that there are between 300 and 500 million cases of malaria annually, causing approximately one million deaths. About 80% of those are young children, millions of whom could have been saved over the years with the regular application of DDT to their environments. Carson cannot be blamed directly for these deaths. She didn't urge total bans in "Silent Spring." Instead, on the single page obliquely acknowledging DDT as an anti-malarial agent, she writes, "Practical advice should be 'Spray as little as you possibly can' rather than 'Spray to the limit of your capacity.'" In the National Archives exhibit, Carson is described as "a passionate voice for protecting the environment and human health." Her concerns about the effects of insect death on bird populations were well-founded. But threats to human health were central to her argument, and Carson was wrong about those. Despite massive exposure in many populations over several decades, there is no decisive evidence that DDT causes cancer in people, and it is unforgivable that she overlooked the enormous boon of DDT for malaria control in her own time. In the years before it lost the public's support in the mid-1960s, the Global Malaria Eradication Programme wiped out malaria in the American South, several Latin American countries, Taiwan, the Balkans, much of the Caribbean, sections of northern Africa and much of Australia and the South Pacific. Exposιs like Carson's made the global campaign's methods increasingly unpopular and eventually brought to a halt the effort to end malaria on a global scale. The disease has since bounced back in many developing countries. In the mid-'90s, the only South American country that continued to use DDT, Ecuador, was also the only country to experience a significant decline in malaria. Many countries, like Uganda, remain hesitant to use DDT because European nations have threatened to refuse their agricultural exports if they do. "It's a paradox that right now we are using pesticides at a greater rate than when 'Silent Spring' was published," Diana Post, executive director of an environmental nonprofit called the Rachel Carson Council, told the Washington Post. Paradoxically, widespread use of DDT for malaria control would likely result in fewer pounds of insecticide being released, not more, since countries struggling with malaria are now using much larger quantities of less potent alternatives. Spraying houses in the whole country of Guyana required the same amount of DDT once used on a single cotton field in a single growing season. Carson didn't have the benefit of more than 40 years of additional data, but her successors do. DDT remains the cheapest and most powerful tool for stopping malaria. When sprayed on interior walls, it has virtually zero interaction with wild ecosystems. Yet when the topic of relaxing restrictions in order to save millions of lives comes up, someone inevitably brandishes a copy of "Silent Spring" and opposition is silenced so completely that you could hear a mosquito buzzing in the next room. --Katherine Mangu-Ward "Suffering in Silence" _The Wall Street Journal_ [20 April 2007] {Ms. Mangu-Ward is associate editor at Reason magazine.} & note: KAMPALA, Uganda -- Though Africa's sad experience with colonialism ended in the 1960s, a lethal vestige remains: malaria. It is the biggest killer of Ugandan and all African children. [ . . . ] The U.S. banned DDT in 1972, spurred on by environmentalist Rachel Carson's 1962 book "Silent Spring." Many countries in Europe and around the world followed suit. But after decades of exhaustive scientific review, DDT has been shown to not only be safe for humans and the environment, but also the single most effective anti-malarial agent ever invented. [ . . . ] Although Uganda's National Environmental Management Authority has approved DDT for malaria control, Western environmentalists continue to undermine our efforts and discourage G-8 governments from supporting us. The EU has acknowledged our right to use DDT, but some consumer and agricultural groups repeat myths and lies about the chemical. They should instead help us use it strictly to control malaria. Environmental leaders must join the 21st century, acknowledge the mistakes Carson made, and balance the hypothetical risks of DDT with the real and devastating consequences of malaria. Uganda has demonstrated that, with the proper support, we can conduct model indoor spraying programs and ensure that money is spent wisely, chemicals are handled properly, our program responds promptly to changing conditions, and malaria is brought under control. Africa is determined to rise above the contemporary colonialism that keeps us impoverished. We expect strong leadership in G-8 countries to stop paying lip service to African self-determination and start supporting solutions that are already working. --Sam Zaramba "Give Us DDT" _The Wall Street Journal_ [12 June 2007] {Dr. Zaramba is director general of health services for the Republic of Uganda.} - I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall I'll never see a tree at all. --Ogden Nash (19021971) American writer of humorous poetry. "Song of the Open Road", _Happy Days_, [1933] To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. --Theodore Roosevelt (18581919) American Republican statesman and President [19011909]. Message to Congress [3 December 1907]. Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. --Albert Schweitzer (18751965) Franco-German theologian, philosopher, and mission doctor. In the Introduction to _Silent Spring_ [1962] by Rachel Carson. I have seen the future of much of the Pacific Rim, and I am scared out of my mind. One quarter of the population of the planet, certainly about 1.2 billion Chinese, are about to transform their standard of living, and in the process, wreck a large proportion of the globe. --John Sergeant British architect, _Newsweek_ [9 May 1994] (after a tour of the Far East) Many land animals and birds are disappearing before the advance of civilization. Draining, cultivation, cutting down of forests, and even the introduction of new plants and animals, destroy some of the old and alter the relations between those that remain. The inaccessible cliffs of the Himalayas and Andes will afford a refuge to the eagle and condor, but the time will come when the mighty forests of Bhutan, of the Amazon and Orinoco, will disappear with the myriads of their joyous inhabitants. --Mary Somerville (17801872) Scottish mathematician and astronomer. _Physical Geography_ [1848; 1877 edn.) p.504 American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash all of them surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered with rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if in no other way, we can see the wild and reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index. Driving along I thought how in France or Italy every item of these throw-out things would have been saved and used for something. This is not said in criticism of one system or the other but I do wonder whether there will come a time when we can no longer afford our wastefulness chemical wastes in the rivers, metal wastes everywhere, and atomic wastes buried deep in the earth or sunk in the sea. When an Indian village became too deep in its own filth, the inhabitants moved. And we have no place to which to move. --John Ernst Steinbeck (19021968) American novelist. _Travels With Charley_ [1962] If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down! --Henry David Thoreau (18171862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. - Sign, sign, everywhere a sign Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign? --The Five Man Electrical Band _Signs_ [1971] (song) (Lyrics by Les Emmerson) ----- dendrochronology (noun) [den-drκ-krκ-'nah-lκ-gee] The study of the history of climatic and environmental changes of a geographical region based on the interpretation of the annual growth rings in the trunks of trees. feng shui (noun) Study of environmental balance: the Chinese system that studies peoples relationships to the environment in which they live, especially their dwelling or workspace, in order to achieve maximum harmony with the spiritual forces believed to influence all places. . . see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to bad end. --Sir Max Beerbohm (18721956) English satirist and caricaturist. Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. --Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (18181885) American humorist. When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice. --Nicolas Boileau-Desprιaux (16361711) French critic and poet. The torment of envy is like a grain of sand in the eye. --Chinese Proverb It is because we have but a small portion of enjoyment ourselves that we feel so little pleasure in the good fortune of others. Is it possible for the happy to be envious? --William Benton Clulow (18021882) English clergyman. The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. The hen of our neighbor appears to us a goose, says the Oriental proverb. --Madame Dorothιe Deluzy (17471830) French actress. Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one. --Evan Esar (18991995) American humorist. I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt. --Ben Hecht (18931964) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy. --Paul Johnson (1928 ) British historian. _The Recovery of Freedom _ [1980] All envy is proportionate to desire. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. Do we want laurels for ourselves most, Or most that no one else shall have any? --Amy Lowell (18741925) American poet. Posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1926. "La Ronde du Diable" [1925] I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. --Christopher Marlowe (15641593) English dramatist and poet. _Doctor Faustus_ [1594] Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation. --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (15331592) French moralist and essayist. If something is pleasant to you, don't forget to tell it to your friends, to make them feel bad. --Casimir, Comte de Montrond (17681843) French diplomat. Attributed, in Comte J. d'Estourmel _Derniers Souvenirs_ [1860]. Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. --Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 B.C.18 A.D.) Roman poet. We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides. --Pliny the Elder [Gaius Plinius Secundus] (2379) Roman statesman and scholar. Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own nature. --Theodore Roosevelt (18581919) American Republican statesman and President [19011909]. In a speech in Providence, Rhode Island [23 August 1902]. It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. _Of a Happy Life_, ch. XIX Sloth views the towers of fame with envious eyes, Desirous still, still impotent to rise. --William Shenstone (17141763) English poet. _The Judgement of Hercules_ l. 436 Base Envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach. --James Thomson (18341882) Scottish poet and essayist. _The Seasons_ "Spring" ----- invidious [in-VID-ee-uhs], adjective: 1. Tending to provoke envy, resentment, or ill will. 2. Containing or implying a slight. 3. Envious. 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