Malice Quote by Robert A. Heinlein Download Open image “You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.” — Robert A. Heinlein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Malice Results Stupid Stupidity Villainy
Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor. — Avital Ronell Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a villain. It's the others who are wrong. In as much, all villains are the same. — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction. — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time. — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
I don't like the word "villain." It's too reductive. Calling someone a villain makes it too easy to ignore all the factors that went… — Bryce Pinkham Copy Share Image
Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity. — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generations. . . . A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive--and nowhere… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to list its own directory. So I tried some test problems on it. It insisted that 2 + 2 = 3.99999999999999999999999… When I tried to get it to admit that 4 = 2 + 2, it became angry and claimed that 4 = 3.141592653589793238462643383279... So I gave up.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share
“Koch believed that what the famed economist Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction" was so critical to the health of the capitalist system that empathy… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image
I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“Monsters don’t exist. It’s men you should be afraid of, not monsters.” — Niccolò Ammaniti Copy Share Image
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 nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation… — David Shapiro Copy Share
Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
You long for one true friend? You have one. And because you do, you have a choice. You can... ponder the malice of your… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
[Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience. — Raoul Hausmann Copy Share Image
People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image