Quotes About Malevolence

Horror is what happens when evil overtakes the heart

In 'Age of Innocence,' the opening flowers, that's a metaphor for the film, the Victorian veneer with the malevolence beneath it. We attempted to show that with flowers that start as sweet and then slowly become malevolent.

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.

Malevolence and paranoia cohabit in a twisted mind. Bad men trust no one because they know the treachery of which they themselves are capable.

Malevolence and paranoia cohabit in a twisted mind. Bad men trust no one because they know the treachery of which they themselves are capable. After

I think you have a social responsibility as the villain, which is pretty different from the hero's responsibility. If you have any kind of a social or political conscience at all, the first thing you want to do is make malevolence recognizable to people, almost as a kind of teaching aid.

Truly evil persons do not recognize their own malevolence. They perceive themselves as generous, good-hearted, friendly sorts, who sometimes have to resort to unpleasant tactics for the general betterment of society. Even the historical monsters seem to have had no second thoughts about the damage they were causing. It was that way with Hitler and Oliver Moresby, just as it was with the Greer Avenue Strangler.

Sociopath was really just a politically correct way to say "the devil".

Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.

Moreover, each man's malevolence quite involuntarily exaggerated the other's importance, as if the chief of villains were confronting the king of imbeciles.

Wickedness is a wrong action.

there is in the sadist — good as he may be, indeed the better he is — a thirst for evil that malefactors cannot satisfy.

Trying to make sense of evil will only give you a headache. Evil is for evil's sake, period. Its only goal is chaos and destruction.

The words were spoken quietly, not in anger, but they were laced with a malevolence that only a fool would choose to ignore.

Mr. Frederick Parker spent a good deal of his time in endeavouring to mask, under a cloak of boisterous good humour, a really remarkable combination of malevolence and imbecility.

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.

Muddleheadedness has always been the sovereign force in human affairs—a force far more potent than malevolence or nobility. It lubricates our hurtful impulses and ties our best intentions in knots. It blunts our wisdom, misdirects our compassion, clouds whatever insights into the human condition we manage to acquire. It is the chief artisan of the unintended consequences that constitute human history.

For George, being in a band was a passion, one to be shared with his friends. Discovering that David had an entirely different agenda was a shock. Just as striking was how unapologetic George's bandmate was—indeed, there was a kind of purity about his attitude; David's selfishness was cheerful, instinctive, almost childlike in its lack of malevolence. George was one of the first, but not the last, to hear what would become a guiding philosophy: "Numero uno, mate!