Viciousness Quotes

“Pray for your own deliverance from your own vicious thoughts.”

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

“In all Thénardier's outpourings, the words and gestures, the fury blazing in his eyes, this explosion of an evil nature brazenly exposed, the mixture of bravado and abjectness, arrogance, pettiness, rage, absurdity; the hodgepodge of genuine distress, and lying sentiment, the shamelessness of a vicious man rejoicing in viciousness, the bare crudity of an ugly soul -- in this eruption of all suffering and hatred there was something which was hideous as evil itself and still as poignant as truth.”

“Levana's face was fiercely beautiful. Breathtaking in her viciousness.”

“Americans just don’t realize the viciousness of the militant Islamic fundamentalist.”

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

“Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one’s strength, to read a book – I call that viciousness!”

“You think because you are born of light that you're somehow better and kinder than those who aren't, but you're not. It merely makes you feel entitled in your wrongful actions against others. But, you're no better than my mother. If anything you're worse because you think your viciousness is justified...”

“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.”

“The thing that strikes me more and more, is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time. I don’t mean merely that controversies are acrimonious. They ought to be that when they are on serious subjects. I mean that almost nobody seems to feel that an opponent deserves a fair hearing or that the objective truth matters as long as you can score a neat debating point.”