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“Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity.”

Real Individual Devil Charity Boards

Author:Austin O'Malley

“Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.”

Source: The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

“Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.”

Children Ends Mother Individual Fronts Son Devil Vote Sells Steam Spawn Locomotives

Author:Eric Massa

“The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual, is the only reality. The State is but the shadow of man, the shadow of his opaqueness, of his ignorance and fear.”

Men States Reality Government Individual Existence Creation Ignorance Devil Shadow Reflexes Ignorance And Fear Creation Of Man

Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“...There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good and is in control of every individual thing that happens, every event, but that unfortunately the devil is in control of the timing.”

Happens School Individual Century Events Devil Timing Heresy Madhouses

Book:Mating

Source: Mating

“There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.”

Bigs Individual Levels Middle Devil Strategy Details Brilliant Tendencies Managers Phrases Zero Capability Timing Senior Superficial Marketplace Familiarity Big Picture

Author:Andy Grove

“We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we adamantly resist changing our opinion, even when somebody offers proof of his decency, because it's vital to have myths about both the gods and devils in our lives.”

People Ifs Individual Opinion Our Lives Offers Devil Excuse Myth Proof Preserves Dislike Reverse Decency

Author:Marlon Brando

“There is no devil in the universe except mankind's own inharmonious thoughts & feelings, both individual and enmass.”

Feelings Spiritual Universe Individual Mankind Devil

Author:St. Germain

“The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.”

Humans May Culture Individual Force Justice Human Beings Sin Class Modern Diversity Devil Social Justice Ancient Innocent Damn Devices Artificial

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois