Malice

Famous quotes containing the word malice:

“There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and by a natural propensity, if not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good-will to every thing, that hurts or pleases us.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)

“Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.”
—Paul Goodman (1911–1972)

“Insects do not sting out of malice but because they also want to live: likewise our critics—they want our blood, not our pain.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)