#devil

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#christianity #crude #decent #decent people #devils

I used to be such a daredevil but now I'm much more cautious. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#daredevil #i #more #much #now

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#black #brought #could #devilish #doubt

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains. ↗

— Lord Byron

#codes #devils #hell #help #humanity

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#country #devil #idea #invented #keep

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater. ↗

— James Broughton

#dance #drama #everything #i #loved

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged. ↗

— Maria Callas

#angel #artist #devil #either #i

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#devil #fact #facts #god #great

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#always #being #bravery #courage #cunning

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

— Winston Churchill

#devil #favourable #hell #hitler #house