Quotes About Resentment

Responsibility is a societal creation. No one is truly responsible for another. You do not owe your children anything. They do not owe you anything. If you wish to do, then do. If they wish to do, they may also do. That which comes from the heart is natural and satisfying. That which comes from the idea of responsibility is forced, artificial, and often produces resentment and the expectation for reciprocation.

I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.

The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

All my mother ever wanted to talk about was what she hated about my father and the times he cheated on her when he was younger. It really irritated me, and I told them they had to sort things out between themselves. Looking back on that, I see that it was really cold of me as a son.

There will always be jealous people and haters: people who assume that if they were in your shoes, they could do what you're doing. That's just the world we live in.

People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another.

There's always jealous people out there.

I think some of the people on the Left... were extremely jealous of me getting what they thought was all of the attention.

I grew up not really having a father figure, and it didn't bother me, because he wasn't there in the first place. But then he started other families, and I was jealous. It was like he was happy without our family.

To an extent, everyone is jealous of everyone.

I'm just a deeply jealous person. And I want blame everybody else for what I don't have.

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.

Money brings jealousy and bitterness.

It is jealousy that leads people to tarnish you.

I can't stand John McCain.

Jealousy is a disease, it's like a poison.

How is it possible to hold such anger against something you don't believe in?

But as important as material self-interest is, human beings are motivated by other things as well, motives that better explain the disparate events of the present. This might be called the politics of resentment. In a wide variety of cases, a political leader has mobilized followers around the perception that the group's dignity had been affronted, disparaged, or otherwise disregarded. This resentment engenders demands for public recognition of the dignity of the group in question.

To propel themselves forward, such figures latched onto the resentments of ordinary people who felt that their nation or religion or way of life was being disrespected. Megalothymia and isothymia thus joined hands.

the universal human psychology of thymos. This moral idea tells us that we have authentic inner selves that are not being recognized and suggests that the whole of external society may be false and repressive. It focuses our natural demand for recognition of our dignity and gives us a language for expressing the resentments that arise when such recognition is not forthcoming.

This professional class had an elevated view of its own status and importance, and tended to resent the fact that the bosses controlling municipal politics were cruder and less educated than they were. They were also taxpayers who didn't like the fact that their hard-earned dollars were going into the pockets of machine politicians.

México nació como un país desunido, racista, clasista, desconfiado, resentido y egoísta, sepultado en una patética desigualdad, que después de siglos de fracasos propios y de invasiones, ya solo creía en la Virgen de Guadalupe

We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.