The Masters of Evil is a name for a number of fictional supervillain teams that appear in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The first version of the team appeared in The Avengers #6 (July 1964), with the lineup continually changing over the years.
Famous quotes containing the words masters of, masters and/or evil:
“It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will ... is a shapeless world.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
“Disciples be damned. Its not interesting. Its only the masters that matter. Those who create.”
—Pablo Picasso (18811973)
“When we say that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasure of the profligate or that which depends on physical enjoymentas some think who do not understand our teachings, disagree with them, or give them an evil interpretationbut by pleasure we mean the state wherein the body is free from pain and the mind from anxiety.”
—Epicurus (c. 341271 B.C.)