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  • Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist. -- Robert Fisk
  • The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent. -- Charles C. Mann
  • Not death but disease is the real enemy; disease, the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
  • The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. -- Lance Morrow
  • I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. -- Bob Geldof
  • But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. -- Joseph Rotblat
  • Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect. -- James Buchan
  • It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual grievances in Palestine, Kashmir, and in central and southern Iraq, and to help the region out of its economic backwardness. -- James Buchan
  • When you are generalizing, and when your goal is to malign and to say things about an entire group - there are tens of millions of Scientologists in the world - when you decide to blanket statement that 'Scientology is evil,' you are my enemy. -- Kirstie Alley
  • If there is a God, he is a malign thug. -- Mark Twain
  • Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist, -- Robert Fisk
  • It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one. -- Sebastian Faulks
  • Kinder the enemy who must malign us Than the smug friend who will define us -- Anna Wickham
  • Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained. -- Theodore Dalrymple
  • Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at. -- Alexander Smith
  • The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling. -- Laozi
  • Vitriolic is a needless and malign attack on something, excessive attack on something. It is a rather pointless thing to do. -- Gore Vidal
  • What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. -- George Eliot
  • Benign environmentalists are opposed to pollution, as all sensible people are; malign environmentalists are opposed to energy and most of what it enables. -- Kevin D. Williamson
  • there is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking. -- Caitlin Thomas
  • Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good. -- Philip Pullman
  • Surely tis by faith we are upheld thro such trials-justice will be meted in time to those who fill soft places and malign men who perform heroic duties -- Elizabeth Blair Lee
  • Not death but disease is the real enemy, disease the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
  • I've always wanted to write about a "haunted" film, something imbued with a malign, potentially fatal attraction, an image which poisons everyone who's unfortunate enough to view it. -- Gemma Files
  • Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone and the machete. -- Matthew Parris
  • Children, do not listen to those who malign masters and sages. Never listen to or indulge in derogatory talk about anyone. When we harbor negative thoughts about others, our minds become impure. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
  • Do not mislead Perez Anna or malign the people who have sheltered you for over twenty years. We are not - what is the word for eaters of one another?""Capitalists," said Anna. -- Eleanor Arnason
  • Do not mislead Perez Anna or malign the people who have sheltered you for over twenty years. We are not - what is the word for eaters of one another?""Capitalists," said Anna." -- Eleanor Arnason
  • Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save yours. -- Steven Pressfield
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