Malignant Quotes

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Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own… — John Taylor of Caroline
When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you… — Lewis B. Smedes
When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the… — Epictetus
Consider Christmas - could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system whereby several hundred… — Upton Sinclair
Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness. — Stefan Molyneux
Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach… — Alberto Manguel
Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of… — W. E. B. Du Bois
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with… — Cyril Connolly
In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the… — Karl Marx
If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings! — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect… — Barbra Streisand
Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time. — Louis Sullivan
Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built… — Oliver Sacks
With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail. — Charles Churchill
A calculated, malignant, devastating evil has arisen in our world, ... Civilization cannot ignore the wrongs that have been done. America will not tolerate their… — John Ashcroft
The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within. — Bill Vaughan
At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any… — Stanislav Grof
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No. Rivalry, competition, envy,… — Philip Roth

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