Malice Quotes - Page 11

• At the end of the day, the Lord knows I have no malice in my heart. But I've got tattoos, and I still fornicate.

  Pharrell Williams

  Tattoo, Heart, The End Of The Day

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• Now, I appeal to the consciences of those that persecute, torment, destroy, and kill other men upon pretence of religion, whether they do it out of friendship and kindness towards them or no? I say, if all this be done merely to make men Christians and procure their salvation, why then do they suffer whoredom, fraud, malice and such-like enormities, which (according to the Apostle) manifestly relish of heathenish corruption, to predominate so much and abound amongst their flocks and people?

  John Locke

  Christian, Kindness, Men

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• If you don't have malice in our heart, it doesn't come across harsh.

  Will Rogers

  Heart, Harsh, Ifs

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• Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Baby, Coping Mechanisms, Giving

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and sets the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter in all its ignorance and cruelty. Laughter with the seed of Satan in it. It tramples upon shrines; the belly-roarer. It roars, it yells, it is delirious: and yet it is as cold as ice. It has no humor. It is naked noise and naked malice.

  Mervyn Peake

  Laughter, Ignorance, Ice

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• Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Littles, Pity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Men, Delight

  "Memoirs of Napoleon" published by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, (1829-1831).

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• To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Mean, Wicked

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.450

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• It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Practice, Effort, Sincerity

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.195, Algora Publishing

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• To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Religious, Men, Church

  Paul Ricoeur (1974). “The Conflict of Interpretations”, p.423, Northwestern University Press

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• Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

  Paul Goodman

  May, Comedy, Surface

  Paul Goodman (1979). “Creator Spirit Come!: The Literary Essays of Paul Goodman”, Dutton Adult

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• It was granted to me alone to discover all the new phenomena in the sky and nothing to anybody else. This is the truth which neither envy nor malice can supress.

  Galileo Galilei

  Sky, Envy, Granted

  "How three wise men and a tube helped us find our place in the universe" by Tim Radford, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2009.

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• Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously surging along the streets past me! Why are they always anxious? What is the meaning of their eternal care and worry? It is their wickedness, their perpetual detestable malice-that's what it is-they are all full of malice, malice!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Past, Worry, Wickedness

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “The Idiot: Easyread Large Edition”, p.542, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We may see how miraculously God defends our people, and makes us hope that, in spite of the malice of our enemies, He will bring our cause to a good and happy end, to the advancement of His glory and the deliverance of so many Christians from unjust oppression.

  William the Silent

  Christian, People, Enemy

  "William the Silent". Book by Frederic Harrison, p. 62, 1897.

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• It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.

  Chinua Achebe

  Purpose, Use, Language

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Jul 15, 2015

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• Criticism is now become mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less with their absurdities than excellence ; and you cannot displease him more than in leaving him little room for his malice.

  John Dryden

  Leaving, Excellence, Criticism

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1836). “The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life”, p.424

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• Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom's care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare!

  William Julius Mickle

  Poison, Care, Snares

  Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1778). “The Lusiad; Or, The Discovery of India: An Epic Poem”, p.53

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• 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

  Rocks, Enemy, Boisterous

  John Foxe, John Malham, T. Pratt (1856). “Fox's Book of Martyrs, Or, The Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church: Being a Complete History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Deaths of the Christian Martyrs ... to which is Added an Account of the Inquisition ... with the Lives of Some of the Early Eminent Reformers”, p.480

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• It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools.

  Peter Medawar

  Educational, School, Thinking

  "The art of the soluble". Book by Peter Medawar, 1967.

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• You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn't bear malice toward others.

  Ramakrishna

  Path, Bears, Should

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• Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right in some meticulous banality, fearing no evil while the mind is free to search, imagine, and conclude, inviting our countrymen to try other instruments than coercion and suppression in the effort to meet destiny with triumph, genially suspecting that no creed yet calendared in the annals of politics mirrors the doomful possibilities of infinity.

  Charles A. Beard

  Destiny, Mirrors, Evil

  "Time, Technology, and the Creative Spirit in Political Science". The American Political Science Review Volume 21, Issue 1, February 1927.

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• Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.

  Thomas Keneally

  Mother, Writing, Narrators

  Thomas Keneally (2013). “Schindler's List”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• In people's eyes I readPages of malice and sin.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Eye, People, Sin

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• Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, envenomed with malice, exalted in an opinion of thine own righteousness, leavened with hypocrisy and carnal ends in God's service.

  Joseph Alleine

  Ignorance, Woe Unto, Hypocrisy

  Joseph Alleine (1824). “An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners”, p.170

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• This swallowing up of life in nothingness, this obliteration of life by nothingness is what the emotion of malice ultimately desires. The eternal conflict between love and malice is the eternal contest between life and death. And this contest is what the complex vision reveals, as it moves from darkness to darkness.

  John Cowper Powys

  Moving, Life And Death, Darkness

  John Cowper Powys (1920). “The Complex Vision”

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