My specialty is detached malevolence.

The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence,…

— Herman E. Daly

“The Great Malevolence had been squatting in the blackness for a very long time. He was there billions of years before people, or dinosaurs,…

— John Connolly

“He stared at me and, though the fate he pronounced was golden, there was a malevolence in his dead eyes. ‘You will be king,’…

— Bernard Cornwell

Twenty-one years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I didn't give…

— Woody Allen

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human…

— Adam Gopnik

One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

— Victor Hugo

I think you have a social responsibility as the villain, which is pretty different from the hero's responsibility. If you have any kind of…

— Peter Coyote

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

— Arthur C. Clarke

This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the…

— Winston Churchill

It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from…

— Annie Dillard

The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

— Voltaire

The arrows of malevolence ... however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me; though, whilst I am up…

— George Washington

“The human beings must be mentally immensely strong, during the encounter with the true malevolence in others, because on it's own it doesn't belong…

— Mladen Đorđević

Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or…

— Bertrand Russell