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Quotes About Malevolence

Meu amo não podia compreender como toda essa raça de patrícios era tão malevolente e tão terrível.
~ Jonathan Swift
Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
~ Abigail Adams
it is the intention to do wickedness that is this world's true evil.
~ Douglas Preston
There is much evil in the world.
~ Agatha Christie
But she might, she just might, be something more... something that's lasted on from a very early age and which crops up now and then in country places. It's frightening when it does, because there's real malevolence - not just a desire to impress.
~ Agatha Christie
Mischief is the way evil toys with the world. Its presence can corrupt the very fabric of existence.
~ Ramsey Campbell
I think we all have the capacity of evil in us.
~ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
El Dios del Viejo Testamento; se puede argumentar, es el carácter más desagradable en toda ficción: celoso y orgulloso de serlo; cerrado de mente, injusto, severo y obsesionado con el control; vengativo, un limpiador étnico sediento de sangre, un misógino, homofóbo, racista, infanticida, genocida, filicida, productor de pestilencias, megalomaníaco, sadomasoquista, caprichoso, y un matón malevolente.
~ Richard Dawkins
The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness
~ Voltaire
Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
~ Abigail Adams
I pity those born of the lighter side. They have no understanding of how seductive cruelty is. The music made out of screams and pleas for mercy. Mmmm. Nothing better. (Noir)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
This world is being directed by a level of evil that is almost impossible to comprehend.
~ David Icke
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
~ Epicurus
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
~ Albert Camus
The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
~ Albert Camus
Narrow, yellow eyes with no visible pupils sparkled with merriment, but the sort of merriment that came from pulling the wings off flies or the arms off experimental subjects.
~ Richard A. Knaak
Anubis. Destructive and demoralizing, but not malevolent.
~ Deanna Raybourn
I wondered, late into the darkness, why malevolence in the elderly should be so much more frightening than in the young. Is it because they were supposed to be wiser? Nobler? Or simply because we liked to believe they were past such passions? It was comforting to think that the sharper emotions could simply dull with time, taking the worst of our suffering with them.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Never attribute to malevolence that which can best be explained by incompetence."--Greenfield's First Law of Political Analysis.
~ Jeff Greenfield
Suddenly, without preliminary fluttering or blinking, the closed eyes opened. They were a true, clear green, an unusual color for human eyes. They looked translucent, like seawater, and they focused on Jean with an expression of concentrated malevolence made all the more alarming by contrast with the placidity of the face in which they were set. The woman's compressed lips parted. "Here, too, O Lord?" a plaintive voice inquired.
~ Elizabeth Peters
For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.
~ Plautus
There was a malevolence about them, a sinister feel as their eyes locked onto us and didn't let go.
~ Richelle Mead
Like a gift from hell. . . .
~ Kresley Cole
Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable.
~ Jeaniene Frost