"Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity."
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"The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!"
"My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring"
"Marriage and sex and money the only living devils."
"If thou has not seen the devil, look at thine own self."
"The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics"
"The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church."
"I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic."
"There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk."
"You the devil in drag. You can burn your cross, Well, I'll burn your flag."
"Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil."
"When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God."
"Why must I run against a Negro? We have had enough of Negroes running against and fighting with each other. The better bet is that we would put a Muslim candidate in the field against a devil, somebody who is against all we stand for."
"I will be happy to give my life to see some of these white devils die."
"The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!"
"The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed."
"If a Devil is one who dares, when others hold back, then I am happy to play the Devil in this Mystery, boy."
"If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God."
"No one is saying you're possessed by the devil anymore except the most ignorant of people in modern culture."
"Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance."