Malefactors Quotes

#1. The question for Obama is how he can rein in the furies of populism while making us all feel the malefactors of great wealth are being sufficiently punished.

Tina Brown

#2. There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth.

James Branch Cabell

#3. The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.

Robert Anton Wilson

#4. If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

Thomas Aquinas

#5. Unlike temporal leadership, in which violence and death often proliferate, Christ's rule signifies reunion between predator and prey, malefactors and innocents.

James Mikolajczyk

#6. The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a snarl.

Petr Skrabanek

#7. Mankind divides itself into two classes,
benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. O how can wicked men seem so steady and untouched with such black hearts, while poor innocents stand like malefactors before them!

Samuel Richardson

#9. Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.

Ambrose Bierce

#11. I have vanquished giants, and I have sent villains and malefactors to her, but where can they find her if she has been enchanted and transformed into the ugliest peasant girl anyone can imagine?

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#12. The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare.

Theodore Roosevelt

#14. But it is evident that the servants of Christ are treated with less humanity than adulterers, robbers, and other malefactors of their kind. This

John Calvin

#15. In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#16. There is in the sadist - good as he may be, indeed the better he is - a thirst for evil that malefactors cannot satisfy.

Marcel Proust

#17. Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example of intolerance by banning churches.

Nicholas Kristof

#18. Wealth comes from big goals and sustained action toward those goals every day ... Never surrender.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#19. One of the best things about humans is we recognize patterns, so we get things like science, music, philosophy. One of the worst things is that we see patterns that are not there so we get things like racism, homophobia and Jerry Falwell.

James Marsters

#20. I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all.

T. J. Miller

#21. I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

Mark Twain

#22. Because I'm a doctor, I know when you have an injury it will heal if it's clean enough to heal; if your injury is dirty, it won't heal. And so when you are talking in societies, we are also talking in healing processes, and for a good healing process, you need to make things right.

Michelle Bachelet

#23. Everything which endures can
only do so because Eternal
Consciousness gives it sentience.

Vimala McClure

#24. there's a terrible silence
before a predator's night

sometimes
an absurd airplane
appears in the sky

it throws out leaflets
calling for surrender

I would be happy to surrender
but I've no one to surrender to

Zbigniew Herbert

#25. At 14 and 15, I used to listen to Tito Puente, Dave Valentine and everything that was happening with American jazz. I love it.

La India

#26. Yes, I know you consider it a waste of time under the circumstances, but we have time to waste.

Kelley Armstrong

#27. When you write about a Muslim woman, like I did with my previous novels - 'Minaret', for example, which is about a woman who starts to wear the hijab - it sets all the alarm bells ringing.

Leila Aboulela

#28. A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.

Tamra Davis

#29. We need a system where all of our teams have the opportunity to compete and to make a few dollars. That's not a bad desire for collective bargaining for a sports league, and it's great for our fans.

David Stern

#30. If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.

Eoin Colfer

#31. Bright clasp of her whole hand around my finger My daughter as we walk together now. All my life I'll feel a ring invisibly Circle this bone with shining When she is grown.

Stephen Spender