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Quotes About Malevolence

It feels really good to be the bad guy, and 'The Darkness' is as bad as it gets.
~ Mike Patton
Yeah, well, if something goes wrong, it'll give me a chance to shoot your ass and save the taxpayers a lot of money, Fulton said and looked again in the mirror. The humor was gone from Kane's face, replaced by a mask of such malevolence that the detective was suddenly re minded of one of his mother's old sayings about letting sleeping dogs lie.
~ Robert K. Tanenbaum
Kindness is thrown away upon the evil.
~ Aesop
There is no god but evil; no lite but darkness; no hope but doom—
~ Robert E. Howard
I hadn't thought of evil as being without color but it is. Once you get past plain everyday wickedness, the color is squeezed right out of it. Evil is a kind of oblivion, having destroyed everything on its way there.
~ Robin McKinley
I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.
~ Gilbert Highet
Evil requires no reason.
~ Alberto Manguel
People caused harm to others because they were of malevolent disposition, that was shear human wickedness. something that has always existed and always would.Some people it seemed derived pleasure from inflicting suffering on others...
~ Alexander McCall Smith
We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior as the result of forces beyond their control.
~ Anna Salter
Who isn't fascinated by evil?
~ Marvin Gaye
There is something sad about malevolence, to be wicked. I have always tried to make that come across in the villains I have played.
~ Christopher Lee
My first black-on-black picture was 'The Portrait of an Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self.' I started using it as an emblem of this undercurrent of wickedness, malevolence, and irony - all of that.
~ Kerry James Marshall
Malevolence is born of negative feelings like lonliness and sadness and anger. It comes from an emptiness inside you that feels as if it's been carved out with a knife; an emptiness you're left with when something very important has been taken away from you.
~ Ry? Murakami
I'm sure we've all experienced really malevolent feelings once or twice in our lives, the desire to kill somebody,say.but there's always a braking mechanism somewhere along the line that stop us.
~ ryu murakami
Faced with the possibility that evil existed, that pure malevolence had walked into my life and convinced me it was love, faced with the loss of everything I wanted from my life, I fainted. And dreamed dark dreams of blood.
~ Salman Rushdie
la maldad de los hombres es muy profunda!
~ Alexandre Dumas
I find it worth while to help clean up the mess made by malevolence and folly. But I do try not to like the mess for its own sake.
~ Edmund Crispin
peering at the world with a malevolence that she wore like mascara.
~ Anthony Horowitz
It was a joke!' There was an extraordinary malevolence in the four words, as if Grunshaw was deliberately overlooking something that was painfully obvious to everyone else. 'I poured maybe two, three inches
~ Anthony Horowitz
Remember that there exists a certain malevolence about the formation of any social order. It is the struggle for existence by an artificial entity. Despotism and slavery hover at the edges. Many injuries occur and, thus, the need for laws. The law develops its own power structure, creating more wounds and new injustices. Such trauma can be healed by cooperation, not by confrontation. The summons to cooperate identifies the healer.
~ Frank Herbert
That's the hatred that kills you. There'll be more of it, so deep and thick there will always be some left, enough to go around...it will ooze out over the earth...and poison it, so nothing will grow but viciousness, among the dead, among men.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The telephone ringing gave me a dreadful start. I have never got used to this machine, the way it crouches so malevolently, ready to start clamouring for attention when you least expect it, like a mad baby.
~ John Banville
After all, evil was a kind of poison, an infection of the soul.
~ John Connolly
The Great Malevolence had been squatting in the blackness for a very long time. He was there billions of years before people, or dinosaurs, or small, single-celled organisms that decided one day to become larger, multicelled organisms so they could, at some point in the future, invent literature, painting, and annoying ring tones for cell phones.
~ John Connolly