Quotes About Comparison

The least is the worst enemy of the most.

There are two kinds of people in the world; those who are rich and those who are happy.

There is not much difference between a greedy person and a pauper.

There is nothing but comparison that makes people happy or miserable.

Those who can't stand perpendicular shouldn't blame those who are on the horizontal position.

To become rich in no time is very easy. The only thing you have to do is to look at those who are poorer than you.

You lose your repute the moment when you compare yourself with unworthy people.

Those who claim to be Christians often do not show more respect for God and concern for worshipers than the Jews in the day of Christ.

Those who are very active in doing good works might think that they are superior to those who choose to place hearing God's word first place.

Instead of measuring freedom by whether our thoughts and actions are free from God, we are "free" as long as we are free relative to other created things, and then we build moral responsibility on that. They just changed the reference point.

Thus Christians must regard non-Christians as intellectually and ethically inferior. Of course non-Christians may think that this is an unkind and offensive assessment, but Christians must not think like them.

Even the least of the Christians are better off than the non-Christians. Sinners are too foolish to realize this.

the clash between the Christian worldview and the non-Christian worldview, the Christian basis of thinking and judgment and the non-Christian basis of thinking and judgment.

Any person who fears God is superior in wisdom to one who does not fear God. Thus all Christians are superior to all non-Christians.

San Diego has the finest zoo in America, but the Los Angeles Zoo is not much more than a home for retired Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lions.

To compare great things with small.

What if Amyntas is dark? Violets are dark, too, and hyacinths.

Although Darwin did not have genetics at hand to prove his case, we now know that humans and chimpanzees share 98 percent of their genes; humans and fruit flies share 44 percent of their genes.)

Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

People who have kids are constantly boring the shit out of people who haven't. But they can't stand it if you tell them the truth – when I look at your life it makes me want to do anything but.

Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral, 48% indignation and 50% envy.

The extreme positive and the extreme negative are always similar. When the vibrations of light are too slow, we do not see them, nor do we see them when they are too rapid. So with sound; when very low in pitch, we do not hear it; when very high, we do not hear it either.

A lucky thing Eva Perón was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

Der kluge Idealismus steht dem klugen Materialismus näher als der dumme Materialismus.