What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting ‚All the Gods are bastards.‘

All mankind love a lover.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

If Sunday is the Lord’s day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.

It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

I like the enemy knowing there are a few guys like me around.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.

Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

I’m old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I’d tell them where to put it.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.