Malevolence Quotes

21 Malevolence quotes by 20 unique authors

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack… — Albert Camus
No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United States as an… — Michael C. Burgess
Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both. — Bertrand Russell
This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis… — Winston Churchill
A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence. — Bruce Catton
To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength. — Samuel Johnson
My specialty is detached malevolence. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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, and… — Herman E. Daly
It hardly needs saying that such mutualistic communities will also be plagued by conflict. Conflict is at the very heart of life, resulting not simply… — Unknown Author
What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is… — Ayn Rand
The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm… — 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 know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to… — Toni Morrison
I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance. — Gilbert Highet
Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from… — C.S. Lewis
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 Malevolence.… — Annie Dillard
The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my… — Edgar Allan Poe
The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and expansion. The ingredients… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence — Arthur C. Clarke
A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or… — Samuel Johnson
Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to bulldoze the spot where Neil Armstrong stepped off the Eagle… — Seth Shostak

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