“Envy is ignorance,
Imitation is Suicide.”

“Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.”

Marva Collins (1936–2015) American schoolteacher

“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery..”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal.”

June Jordan (1936–2002) Poet, essayist, playwright, feminist and bisexual activist

“Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance discontented and dexterous, learning what it cannot understand, and imitating what it cannot enjoy, produces the most loathsome forms of manufacture that can disgrace or mislead humanity.”

John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic

“Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

“Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation.”

Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) English portrait and landscape painter

“There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.”

Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…

“The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer