This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
Debt | Prosperity | Wisdom |
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten... America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness - justice.
Debt | Determination | Greatness | History | Indispensable | Justice | Ugly | Will | Wisdom |
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morely of Blackburn, Lord Morley
A sudden lie may be sometimes only manslaughter upon truth; but by a carefully constructed equivocation, truth always is with malice a forethought deliberately murdered.
Equivocation | Forethought | Malice | Truth | Wisdom |
Do not envy the violet the dew-drop or glitter of a sunbeam; do not envy the bee the plant from which he draws some sweets. Do not envy man the little goods he possesses; for the earth is for him the plant from which he obtains some sweets, and his mind is the dew-drop which the world colors for an instant.
Perhaps the most dangerous aspect of envy is not envy itself, but the denial of it.
Envy |
Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim
In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealously, hatred, envy and greed… Today art has to look again at these unchanging qualities, because society is no longer unchanging. It is up to art today to show us what has become of these unchanging qualities in the world which is moving and changing.
Art | Envy | Greed | Love | Man | Past | Qualities | Society | World | Society | Art |
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But here was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that this was my life. This perspective has helped me to see that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
Business | Debt | Life | Life | Time | Happiness | Obstacle |