"Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
"Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice."
- Alain de Botton
"If there is a deity of the kind imagined by votaries of the big mail-order religions such as Christianity and Islam, and if this deity is the creator of all things, then it is responsible for cancer, ..."
- A.C. Grayling
"Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe that it is harmful to your body."
"Malice is a greater magnifying-glass than kindness."
- George Savile Halifax
"Every man on earth is sick with the fever of sin, with the blindness of sin and is overcome with its fury. As sins consist mostly of malice and pride, it is necessary to treat everyone who suffers fro..."
- John of Kronstadt
"When people are doing their utmost to upset you, it's probably best to just laugh at them."
- Wayne Gerard Trotman
"Saturated Arrogance...imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me..."
- Muse
"Saturated Arrogance...she rebuked those about herin darkness did she dwella pathetic historyall mortal man would tell.."
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
- Robert J. Hanlon