Devil Quotes - page 7

Each for himself is still the rule We learn it when we go to school The devil take the hindmost, O! (Arthur Hugh Clough)
The devil is not abroad at night in the form of a cat or a wolf or any other animal. He lives eternally in the hearts of men. View quote
Craig Ferguson
I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood. View quote
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
You are blinded and you serve the God of the Jews, who is not the God of love but the God of hatred. Why don't you listen to Christ Himself, who said to the Jews: "Ye are of your father the devil!" View quote
Julius Streicher
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error. View quote
Tryon Edwards
Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven. View quote
Arthur Miller
Inspiring bold John Barleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi' usquabae, we'll face the devil! View quote
Robert Burns
He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil. View quote
Horatio Nelson
The Devil is right at home. The Devil, the Devil himself, is right in the house. And the Devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the Devil came here. Right here. And it smells of sulphur still today. Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the Devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world. (Hugo Chávez)
Is it possible, then, to doubt that we can and must gain victory over the German invaders? The enemy is not as strong as some terror-stricken pseudo-intellectuals picture him. The devil is not as terrible as he is painted. View quote
Joseph Stalin
But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything. View quote
Karl Marx
Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated. View quote
Milan Kundera
Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. View quote
Albert Einstein
Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men. View quote
Martin Luther
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn. View quote
Martin Luther
I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If not reason, then the devil. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Where dance is, there is the devil. (John Chrysostom)
Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them. View quote
Robert Ludlum
We have done a tiny bit to free the darkies in this country. But the devil is still very much our slave. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials. View quote
William Peter Blatty
Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty. View quote
Holly Black