The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence — Arthur C. Clarke 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
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
“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
To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength. — Samuel Johnson 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
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
“Who seems a harmless fool to those above him is a malevolence to those beneath.” — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“He stared at me and, though the fate he pronounced was golden, there was a malevolence in his dead eyes. ‘You will… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“The human beings must be mentally immensely strong, during the encounter with the true malevolence in others, because on it's own it… — Mladen Đorđević Copy Share Image
The arrows of malevolence ... however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me; though, whilst I… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Malevolence and paranoia cohabit in a twisted mind. Bad men trust no one because they know the treachery of which they themselves… — Dean Koontz 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… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
It hardly needs saying that such mutualistic communities will also be plagued by conflict. Conflict is at the very heart of life,… — Benjamin Nelson Copy Share Image
Those who have experienced a great deal of violence or committed a great deal of violence themselves, those who are existing in… — Rupert Wyatt Copy Share Image
It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special… — Annie Dillard 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
Twenty-one years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The misfortunes which God is represented in the book of Job as allowing Satan to inflict on Job, merely to test his… — A.J. Ayer 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
“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
The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence. — Arthur Miller 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
A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence. — Bruce Catton 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
As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
“Malevolence takes a bite out off your spirit. Just sitting with it, just talking with people who consciously and deliberately exploit others,… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“Sometimes great power brings out the worst in us, and unfortunately, it isn't until people are given it that we see the… — Barbara Kloss Copy Share Image