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Quotes About Malice

Most of what once existed is gone... Nature takes one toll, malice another... most of what historians study survives because it was purposely kept... (it) is called the historical record, & it is maddeningly uneven, asymmetrical, & unfair.
~ Jill Lepore
I never saw men act with such ignorance, violence and self-serving malice as when energised by a just cause.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The classes of citizens are three. The rich are useless, always lusting after more. Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues; their malice stings the owners. Of the three, the middle part saves cities.
~ Euripides
It was this night that he told me the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody—told it to me because "Jay Gatsby" had broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice, and the long secret extravaganza was played out.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Porque todo ha de saberse y lo que no se sabe lo imagina la malicia de los hombres.
~ Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo
No pleasure but meanness
~ Flannery O'Connor
He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.
~ Ovid
But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.
~ James Otis
The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
~ Victor Hugo
The New Testament Scriptures are full of references to the malice of the devil, but we generally overlook them. I think this is because our idea of salvation is that Christ died on the cross to pay His Father the debt for our sins.
~ Frederica Mathewes-Green
As we have seen, the Qur'an implies that Jews and Christians after the time of Muhammad are renegades who have rejected his prophethood out of corruption and malice. Muhammad weaves his charges against Jews and Christians together by condemning Christians for believing that Jesus was crucified, and Jews for believing that they crucified him.
~ Robert Spencer
Lakewalker legends say the gods abandoned the world when the first malice came. And that they will return when the earth is entirely cleansed of its spawn. If you believe in gods. Do you? I believe they are not here, yes. It's a faith of sorts.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
And he saw Thire, in a helmet with bright crimson flares. He was searching for something. And with him was another presence—one that felt like a vast storm in the Force, full of malice and greed. Troubled, Yoda opened his eyes.
~ Lou Anders
I rather like it, for it is honest, and no malice or mischief is hidden behind it. I always distrust those smooth, sweet voices; they are insincere. I like a full, clear tone; sharp, if you please, but decided and true.
~ Louisa May Alcott
From the start, sensing that Tarbell was full of malice toward Standard Oil, Archbold had refused to cooperate.
~ Ron Chernow
Can't you see? To taint Kiky?'s heart with spite, so that the Shikon jewel would absorb the blood of malice. Two who had trusted each other would now despise and kill one another. What purer evil could be found to taint the jewel? And the more profound the love had once been, the more powerful the resulting hatred, and the more evil the jewel. Magnificent.- Naraku
~ Rumiko Takahashi
To love him who makes one happy, is to a reflective mind an inadequate definition of what love is; to love him who made one unhappy out of malice, is virtue; but to love him who out of love, though by a misunderstanding, yet out of love, made one unhappy – that is the formula never yet enunciated, so far as I know, but nevertheless the normal formula in reflection for what it is to love.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber.
~ Samuel Johnson
But, though persecuting malice raged, yet the Gospel shone with resplendent brightness; and, firm as an impregnable rock, withstood the attacks of its boisterous enemies with success.
~ John Foxe
Andrea was not very handsome, the hideous scoundrel
~ Alexandre Dumas
la maldad de los hombres es muy profunda!
~ Alexandre Dumas
My curse on fucking causes! Nothing but big excuses. I never saw men act with such ignorance, violence and self-serving malice as when energised by a just cause.
~ Joe Abercrombie
A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Misunderstandings and lethargy perhaps produce more wrong in the world than deceit and malice do.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe