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

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.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

All mankind love a lover.

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

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

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.

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.

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

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

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.

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer… in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

‚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.

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

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

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

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

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

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

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

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

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.

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

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

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

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.

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

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

General consultant to mankind.

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

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

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.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

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

Yes, I’m still going to misbehave!

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

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

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

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.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

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