Quotes About Malice

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

I always like playing the bad guys. They have more fun!

The legal challenge was a lot like the challenge of demonstrating the impact of racism or poverty or substandard housing: How could you untangle the structural injustices from the self-inflicted damage? How could you separate neglect from malice, the intended from the unintended harms?

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 the church's pastors wherever it occurs... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.

The job, in Schopenhauer's steady view, is rarely brought off in a successful way. For in "the boundless egotism of our nature there is joined more or less in every human breast a fund of hatred, anger, envy, rancor, and malice, accumulated like the venom in a serpent's tooth, and waiting only an opportunity of venting itself and then, like a demon unchained, of storming and raging." Not exactly what we should nowadays call a fun guy, Schopenhauer.

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.

So clean house! Make a clean sweep of malice and pretense, envy and hurtful talk. You've had a taste of God. Now, like infants at the breast, drink deep of God's pure kindness. Then you'll grow up mature and whole in God. 1 Peter 2:1–3, THE MESSAGE

It is my purpose, as one who lived and acted in these days . . . to show how the malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous, how the councils of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger ... and how the middle course, adopted from desires for safety and a quiet life may he found to lead direct to the bull's-eye of disaster.

The malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

As for the opposite of kindness, which I have known well, it deserves no name.

His hair soft as a nestling's, his eyes graceless with malice, Lymond was watching him in a silver mirror.

it is the intention to do wickedness that is this world's true evil.

She looked at nobody, but just before she went out, she raised her eyes and took a speedy glance at me. There was something in that looks that startled me - though it was difficult to describe why. There was malice in it, and a curious intimate knowledge. I felt that, without effort, and almost without curiosity, she had known exactly what thoughts were in my mind.

There is much evil in the world.

Ah," she said, "I've enjoyed myself! There's nothing like exchanging gossip and remembering old scandals." "A little malice," agreed Mr. Treves, "adds a certain savour to life.

There are one hundred and ninety ways of being a bastard and Carne knew all of them.

Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.

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 in their pointless death?

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.

Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.