“See thou, whatsoever be thy name -- whether Fate, Life, or Devil! I cast thee down my gauntlet, I challenge thee to battle! Men of faint heart may bow before thy mysterious power, thy face of stone may inspire them with dread, in thy unbroken silence they may discern the birth of calamity and an impending avalanche of woe. But I am daring and strong, and I challenge thee to battle! Let us draw our swords, and join our bucklers, and rain such blows upon each other's crests as shall cause the very earth to shake again! Ha! Come forth and fight with me!” MenHeartMayEarthFacesFightingNamesStrongCausesChallengesSilenceFateInspireBirthBattleDrawsDevilRainStonesCastsBlowMysteriousTheeShakesDaringBowsDreadWoeCalamityUnbrokenAvalanchesGauntlet Author:Leonid Andreyev
“You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening.” PeopleWorldBelieveHandsChristianI BelieveMillionsRightsGayDevilTwentiesBlowI Believe InAbortionFrighteningGay RightsEvangelicalHands UpAgainst Abortion Author:Jeanette Winterson
“A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.” PoliticalPoliticsSinHeardFashionPoliticianDevilBlowAnvils Author:John Webster
“Thomas More: ...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down...d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.” IfsThinkingMenGivingCountryLastsLawMy OwnCuttingWindBenefitsDevilSeasonsDown AndSafetySakeBlowFlatsThickCoast Author:Robert Bolt
“I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil. I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow.” WayWritingLittlesActionReadingFoundMy OwnFictionAudienceGraceSubjectsDevilBlowTerritory Author:Flannery O'Connor
“Shabazz led chants of ‘death to Israel,’ ‘the white man is the devil,’ and ‘Jihad.’ He also said, ‘Kill every goddamn Zionist in Israel! Goddamn little babies, goddamn old ladies! Blow up Zionist supermarkets!’” MenLittlesSaidWhiteBabyDevilBlowIsraelWhite ManSupermarketsOld LadyZionistJihad Author:Malik Zulu Shabazz
“The devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to deny that he too is an animal, for to do so would serve a mighty blow to his impoverished ego.” MenNeedsPastAnimalEgoDevilEvidenceConstantBlowDenyCharacteristics Author:Anton Szandor LaVey