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Quotes About Malign

Earlier generations had worshipped malign and capricious spirits. Ours put its faith in an ordered universe.
~ Peter Watts
I find it sad, but all too human, that there are vast bureaucracies concerned about nuclear waste, huge organizations devoted to decommissioning nuclear power stations, but nothing comparable to deal with that truly malign waste, carbon dioxide.
~ James E. Lovelock
Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you.
~ Aesop
There are those in positions of power who malign the pursuit of justice by intentionally associating the word "conspiracy" with the delirious hallucinations of unbalanced minds. They're wrong. The real-world definition of conspiracy is simply two or more persons agreeing to commit a crime. In short, they are everywhere, a constant component of daily events throughout our history, and are by no means the restless imaginings of an over-attentive audience.
~ Richard Belzer
If there is a God, he is a malign thug.
~ Mark Twain
No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.
~ John Brown Gordon
As Leander does not have a strong case in court, he is resorting to underhand tactics through a few tabloids from time to time to malign my name publicly, without any proof to back his claims.
~ Rhea Pillai
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.
~ Philip Pullman
Kötü bir yürek en sevimlileri bile çirkinden de kötü yapar.
~ Emily Bronte
The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.
~ Charles C. Mann
Instead of the benign competition to secure a market share, we discover a malign competition to externalize costs. The firm that can transfer its costs to others has the advantage over the one that must meet its costs itself, and if the costs can be transferred so widely that it is impossible to identify a victim, they can be effectively written off.
~ Roger Scruton
But so much the more malign and wild does the ground become with bad seed and untilled, as it has the more of good earthly vigor.
~ Durante degli Alighieri
There are groups of haters who always try to malign my image. They question my character and make all kinds of false announcements. It hurts because they assume things and without any proof in hand.
~ Divyanka Tripathi
The owner of Wikileaks has gone mad or he has joined hands with our opposition parties to malign my government.
~ Mayawati
The re-establishment of a hard border on the island of Ireland would be a step backwards and present an opportunity for others, with malign agendas, to exploit for destructive purposes.
~ Enda Kenny
Malign? I praise him. Death and deceit are our only hopes now. I just do not fool myself about Thufir's methods.
~ Frank Herbert
Where Thufir Hawat goes, death and deceit follow." "You malign him." "Malign? I praise him. Death and deceit are our only hopes now.
~ Frank Herbert
In so-called primitive societies there are two words for power, mana and taboo: the power which creates and the power which destroys; the power which is benign and the power which is malign. Odd that we have retained in our vocabulary the word for dangerous power, taboo, and have lost mana.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I've got ten thousand ducks quacking and waddling, with one deluded chicken that thinks it's a duck in the middle. I think it's a flock of ducks; Cam thinks it's a malign conspiracy of chickens.
~ John Barnes
It's the sensation that all intentionality and will is being drained from the world, all consciousness, that there is nothing in earthly activity but malign blind indifference; that even the willed behavior of persons, speaking, thinking, doing, is only mechanical ticks and tocks. Finally that they cannot even be heard or seen, because all eyes are blind, all ears are stopped. My own consciousness the only one existent to know this.
~ John Crowley
Do not mislead Perez Anna or malign the people who have sheltered you for over twenty years. We are not - what is the word for eaters of one another?" "Capitalists," said Anna.
~ Eleanor Arnason
Having consumed election influence intelligence across various analytic communities, it is clear to me that different groups of analysts who focus on election threats from different countries are using different terminology to communicate the same malign actions.
~ John Ratcliffe
Contempt of the defeated for the victor, seemingly a perverse response, is a loser's sentiment—denying admission of its own fault or failure and believing itself robbed of victory by some malign mischance, as in sports when a gust of wind might divert the throw of a ball, giving victory to the opponent.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
If you hang around people from L.A., they're, like, used to having their city being maligned.
~ Jay Chandrasekhar