Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Flashes of disbelief trekked in multiple directions. Each one faded into despair.” — Steve Rush Copy Share Image
Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence. — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
“I have two rules I follow religiously: #1. Don't sweat the small stuff. #2. It's all small stuff.” — R. Rose Copy Share Image
The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Who seems a harmless fool to those above him is a malevolence to those beneath.” — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“The PM glanced a look of pure malevolence. A terrifying glimpse into what madness, ego and naked ambition it takes to lead… — Alan Dean Copy Share Image
A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“beware the law behind closed doors, the yellow-toothed men behind silver badges who had been betrayed by their chromosomes and their birth.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the patience of God,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God love the car. It has shown the naked heart that lives in all of us. Man invented the car but the… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Malevolence is born of negative feelings like loneliness and sadness and anger. It comes from an emptiness inside you that feels as… — Ryu Murakami Copy Share Image
“The Great Malevolence had been squatting in the blackness for a very long time. He was there billions of years before people,… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
This movement among the Jews is not new... This world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Islam emphasized the internal purity of man that is achieved through the purity of the mind in realizing the Right and the… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
“But all this was beside the point. What scared Amy was the mere fact of what looked inescapably like recreational malevolence. The… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“We must know something about malevolence, about how to recognize it, and about how not to make excuses for it. We must… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“Why give a robot an order to obey orders—why aren't the original orders enough? Why command a robot not to do harm—wouldn't… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“malevolence has been released from the earth. Instead of laying her ghosts to rest, Jade finds herself confronting” — Dale Mayer Copy Share Image
“The best way to subdue malevolence, she had found, was to smile at it. People found it utterly confounding” — Emily Windsor Copy Share Image
I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, to destroy evil, it takes something equally dark; a selective malevolence that will do what others will not, or cannot do.” — Robert G. Moons Copy Share Image
“Enochian was the wail of dying stars, the whisper of galaxies winging through the void, the gurgle of primordial oceans, the crackle… — Ian Tregillis Copy Share Image
A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image