Robert A. Heinlein
Science Fiction Author
"You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity."
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Malice
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Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous."
Jean Racine
Playwright, Poet
"A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt."
Moliere
Playwright, Actor
"There is no rampart that will hold out against malice."
Roger Williams
Theologian, Minister
"I do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage."
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"Life is a warfare against the malice of others."
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"Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison."
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"Let not your rage or malice destroy a life."
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"The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply."
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"There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice."
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"With malice towards none; with charity for all."
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"You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something — I am God."
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"Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent."
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"Malicious men may die, but malice never."
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"People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice."
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"The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you; The malice towards you to forgive you."
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"Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?"
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"Malice remains its animating impulse."
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"The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching."
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"Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself."
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