Malice Quotes

217 quotes by 169 authors

The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a… — George Santayana
What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory… — Terry Brooks
It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from… — Pope Benedict XVI
Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness. — Alice Munro
No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy… — Leo Strauss
A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it… — Edgar Degas
There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and… — Mervyn Peake
Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance. — Harold S. Kushner
It is impossible â€“ now, at this point in the long journey of human culture â€“ to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that… — Howard Barker
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the… — Unknown Author
Good grief. If we canâ€™t laugh at ourselves, and at one another, in good spirit and without malice, then what fun can be left? If… — George Takei
A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry… — Thomas Traherne
To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to him that you… — Anatole Broyard
I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally… — Lord Chesterfield
A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of… — Eric Hoffer
Cleanse your body and soul, removing malice, selfishness and desire. — Morihei Ueshiba
What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil… — Saint Augustine
He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit… — Khalil Gibran
How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the… — Winston Churchill
There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail. — Swami Vivekananda

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