Malignancy Quotes

• To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Mean, Instinct, Know Thyself

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• The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.

  Edward Albee

  Humor, Profound, Social

  Edward Albee (2003). “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: A Play”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• I cannot remember much, I cannot feel much. Maybe erasure is necessary. Maybe the human spirit defends itself as the body does, attacking infection, enveloping and destroying those malignancies that would otherwise consume us.

  Tim O'Brien

  Doe, Body, Spirit

  Tim O'Brien (2006). “In the Lake of the Woods”, p.307, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Life, Freedom, Real

  "Forgiveness: You Can’t Have It Both Ways" by Maria Mayo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

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• "What is honor?" "Honor is what no man can give ya. And none can take away. Honor is man's gift to himself." "Do women have it?" "Women have a heart of honor, and we cherish and protect it in 'em. We must never mistreat a woman or malign a man, or standby and see another do so." "How do you know you have it?" "Never worry on the gift of it. It grows in ya' and speaks to ya'. All ya' need do is listen".

  Rob Roy MacGregor

  Women, Heart, Giving

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• Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like an appendix waiting for infection. Faith and hope and love...prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude...all this useless clutter just packed too much damn morality into the heart, getting in the way of the soul's innate desire for malignancy.

  J.R. Ward

  Love, Heart, Justice

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.17, Penguin

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• The military works like government; is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to the racial-spoils system.

  Ilana Mercer

  Sports, Military, Government

  "The Silent Co-Conspirators In Military Mass Shootings". www.economicpolicyjournal.com. September 22, 2013.

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• Fear was a thing I understood all too well. It was a malignancy that had spread throughout my body until my mother, in her godly wisdom, had diagnosed and cauterized it.

  Delores Phillips

  Mother, Godly, Body

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• Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could be purged, somehow, of the projected not-them badness that they internalized and perhaps have acted out because their souls have been so damaged? Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could find the joy that comes with committing to our own goodness? Perhaps we would stop dividing ourselves into malignancies of various forms.

  Eve Ensler

  Joy, Soul, Incredibles

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• Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Cancer, Hatred

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Fate, Evil

  William Shakespeare (2005). “Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will”, p.26, 1st World Publishing

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• One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Giving Up, Glowing, Evil

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• There's a current notion that you should "take charge of your disease." No thanks. I'm busy. I've got cancer. I'm willing to face having cancer. I'm not willing to face having cancer with homework. I promised Dr. Pipas and Dr. Zaki that I wouldn't show up with sheaves of printouts from the Internet containing everything on Wikipedia on malignancies. They each laughed with detectable notes of relief. Although I suspect my wife has made her way into the health blog ether. Fish oil pills, raw kelp, and other untoward substances started showing up on dinner plates after I was diagnosed.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cancer, Oil, Wife

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• Beginning in 1940,...questionable grades of (low) malignancy were classed as cancer. ...the proportion of 'cancer' cures...increased rapidly.

  Hardin B. Jones

  Cancer, Dark, Age

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• Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.

  Murray Bookchin

  Cancer, Disease, Social

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