Quotes About Viciousness

#1. Let's not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness we've seen without changing one word.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#2. But hatred and viciousness are addictive. You can get high on them. Once you've had a little, you start shaking if you don't get more.

Margaret Atwood

#3. The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

Eric Hoffer

#4. Hatred and viciousness are addictive. You can get high on them.

Margaret Atwood

#5. Americans just don't realize the viciousness of the militant Islamic fundamentalist.

Brigitte Gabriel

#6. Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else,
coldness, or weakness, or viciousness,
but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!

Margaret Deland

#7. Roarke is her everything, as she is his. It matters, I think, that these two people who came from abuse and viciousness found each other, helped make each other into better people. Love opened them to more.

Nora Roberts

#8. I regard many of the neoconservatives as personal friends, but that's not stopped them from behaving with extraordinary viciousness towards those of us who raised the immigration issue.

Peter Brimelow

#9. One should not seek happiness, just nurture the spirit of joy as the basis of summoning happiness. One should not try to escape misfortune, just get rid of viciousness as a means of avoiding misfortune.

Zicheng Hong

#10. The vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people's lives.

A.E. Samaan

#11. What I know are simple truths. I know that the fabric of memory is reinforced by stories, rent by silences. I know that power dreads memory. I know that memory outlasts power's viciousness. I know . . . that a voiceless man is as good as dead.

Okey Ndibe

#12. For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man."
To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service."
Bravo." Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling. "Bra-vo!

Frank Beddor

#13. Light always underestimates the viciousness of Darkness

P.C. Cast

#14. Do they really think that a limited intellect means a child can't feel viciousness in a person's touch or hear anger in the tone of their voice?

Martin Pistorius

#15. It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.

John Steinbeck

#16. That's the hatred that kills you. There'll be more of it, so deep and thick there will always be some left, enough to go around ... it will ooze out over the earth ... and poison it, so nothing will grow but viciousness, among the dead, among men.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#17. I was attacked by two dogs when I was three and a half years old. I'm lucky to be alive. My face was stitched back together and here I still am, gratefully so. I believe that experience shocked me into a deep alliance with the animal world, its beauty and viciousness and terror.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#18. Levana's face was fiercely beautiful. Breathtaking in her viciousness.

Marissa Meyer

#19. I don't need the approval of the press, but I just wish they'd stop the viciousness ... I never felt sorry for people like Lindsay Lohan in my life. I thought they were dopey little movie stars. Now I feel sorry for those people.

Bill O'Reilly

#20. Forgiveness is "selective remembering" - a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go. But the ego is relentless - it is "capable of suspiciousness at best and viciousness at worst.

Marianne Williamson

#21. Such uncanny serenity actually frightened him, making him think that perhaps this was a surface impression left behind after any amount of unspeakable viciousness had been digested, or else settled down inside her as a kind of sediment.

Han Kang

#22. As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

Erich Fromm

#23. New York is eating young geniuses [businessmen] up alive. It's eating them up alive, Stone. And it's showing the beauty of the city, but it's showing the toughness and the viciousness of the city.

Donald Trump

#24. It's bad to be a dragon."
"Says who? Nothing wrong with a little bit of viciousness. Would you rather be a dove or a dragon?

Roshani Chokshi

#25. There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.

Philip Sidney

#26. Such a brute should underneath all his braggart tricks, his viciousness, his vileness, be a coward. But I am convinced that he was not. Because even cowardice requires a certain degree of sensitivity, and a certain value for life.

Warren Eyster

#27. We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted, like some hideous wallpaper we have lived with for years.

Roger Kimball

#28. Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror, and heart and soul breaking of the world.

Betty Smith

#29. Hazel grew up - did four years in grammar school, four years in reform school, and didn't learn a thing in either place. Reform schools are supposed to teach viciousness and criminality but Hazel didn't pay enough attention.

John Steinbeck

#30. It seemed that young people, despite their fundamental decency, now had to buy into a mind-set which made viciousness and treachery come easy.

Irvine Welsh

#31. Humanity is capable of any atrocity," she said. "But when you understand the extent of this cruelty, the unprecedented viciousness, the immense scale of the horror, it seems beyond the power of mere people to conceive and execute. It seems demonic.

Dean Koontz

#32. It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

Lenny Bruce

#33. We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#34. Against ignorance there is no front line. Against viciousness no border can hold. It breeds as readily behind your back as elsewhere.' 'What

Steven Erikson

#35. Viciousness is part of the world we live in, some of us choose to ignore it with the rationalisation of wanting only positivity to flow our way. How selfish we have become! That the pain of others has become a hindrance to the fulfilment of our positive selves.

Aysha Taryam

#36. Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

#37. All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.

Colum McCann

#38. Your every ill-thought, secreted hate, cynical and vicious judgment you carry is meant only for you.

Bryant McGill

#39. Many people live in an induced spiritual comma; they are inherently vicious, and are completely unaware of their malady.

Bryant McGill

#40. Pray for your own deliverance from your own vicious thoughts.

Bryant McGill