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Quotes About Malice

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.
~ William Graham Sumner
We were designed to love and to be loved, to reach our dreams to unleash our potentials but not live in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
~ Auliq Ice
There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil.
~ Bob Dole
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.
~ Will Schwalbe
Envy and malice are indefatigable. Where they have not invention enough to frame new slanders, or the slanders newly framed are found totally inadequate to their purpose, they will call in the feeble aid of old calumnies
~ Willard Sterne Randall
There's much more stupidity than there is malice in the world...
~ William Gaddis
Our disposition toward the ills which our fellow-man inflicts on us through malice or meddling is quite different from our disposition toward the ills which are inherent in the conditions of human life.
~ William Graham Sumner
The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice
~ William Hazlitt
his experience, only people acted out of pure malice.
~ William Kent Krueger
Hate is the father of all evil.
~ David Gemmell
There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts.
~ David Halberstam
The prisoner was Driver A. J. Hayes, chauffeur of the commander of one of the crack field batteries attached to the Fourth Indian Division. "He says Hitler has on several occasions offered Britain good peace terms. But Churchill, inspired by malice and ruthlessness, is leading the British people toward the abyss. The prisoner's manner of speaking makes his testimony seem trustworthy.
~ David Irving
The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell, pride, malice, revenge, rage, horror, despair, continually devout them.
~ John Wesley
Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.
~ Pythagoras
Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.
~ Lady Gregory
Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?
~ Thomas Jefferson
CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.
~ Jamais Cascio
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
~ David O. McKay
I hope you slip in a puddle of AIDS and crack your head open
~ Jim Norton
A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.
~ Martin Luther
True evil is always petty and often incompetent.
~ Claire Chilton
Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
~ J. K. Rowling