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• Stop screamin', you know the demon said it's best to die, And even if Jehovah witness, bet he'll never testify, D'Evils.

  Jay-Z

  Rap, Evil, Jehovah

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.66, Random House Group

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• There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.

  Rene Dubos

  Technology, Men, Civilization

  "A God Within". Book by René Dubos, 1972.

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• Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Heaven, Religion

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.12

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• My singing silenced the bullies, but better than that, it silenced the demons inside me. When you're jeered at, told to shut up, sit still, stop being silly, there's a cacophony of noise rolling around in your head. When I was singing, it was peaceful.

  Susan Boyle

  Bullying, Silly, Peaceful

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• Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the direst necessityand, if compelled, will use themonly with the utmost restraint.Peace is his highest value.If the peace has been shattered,how can he be content?His enemies are not demons,but human beings like himself.He doesn't wish them personal harm.Nor does he rejoice in victory.How could he rejoice in victoryand delight in the slaughter of men?He enters a battle gravely,with sorrow and with great compassion,as if he were attending a funeral

  Laozi

  Peace, Compassion, Men

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• True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from the buzz of commercial distraction and false social realities. We have to retreat into our own cocoons and come face-to-face with who we are. We have to turn toward our own inner darkness. For only by abandoning its attachments and facing the darkness does the caterpillar's body begin to spread out and its light, beautiful wings begin to form.

  Julia Hill

  Beautiful, Reality, Light

  "The Legacy of Luna". Book by Julia Butterfly Hill, April 1, 2000.

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• Both angels and demons are ignorant of the future, yet they make predictions. The angels do so when God reveals the future to them and commands them to prophesy, and what they prophesy comes to pass. Demons also make predictions, but these are only guesses based on what they see from afar.

  John of Damascus

  Angel, Ignorant, Afar

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• One question that has always intrigued me is what happens to demonic beings when immigrants move from their homelands. Irish-Americans remember the fairies. Norwegian-Americans the nisser, Greek-Americans the vrykólakas, but only in relation to events remembered in the Old Country. When I once asked why such demons are not seen in America, my informants giggled confusedly and said, 'They're scared to pass the ocean, it's too far,' pointing out that Christ and the apostles never came to American.

  Richard Mercer Dorson

  Country, Crazy, Ocean

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• We all have inner demons to fight, we call these demons, fear and hatred and anger. If you do not conquer them then a life of one hundred years is a tragedy. If you do, then a life of a single day can be a triumph.

  Yip Man

  Fighting, Years, Hatred

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• Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names. They keep him on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food - and, above all, a large array of neuroses

  Carl Jung

  Running, Spiritual, Men

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• Liebig himself seems to have occupied the role of a gate, or sorting-demon, such as his younger contemporary Clerk Maxwell once proposed, helping to concentrate energy into one favored room of the Creation at the expense of everything else.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Clerks, Energy, Roles

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• God called Abraham and commanded him to go out from the country where he was living. With this call God has roused us all, and now we have left the state. We have renounced all the things the world offers.... The gods of the nations are demons.

  Justin Martyr

  Country, World, Violence

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• You can't be afraid to deal with your demons. You've got to go there to be able to write.

  Lucinda Williams

  Writing, Crafts, Able

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• Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words

  Elie Wiesel

  Teaching, Angel, Giving

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.14, Schocken

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• We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond comprehension. Remove societal restraints on some evils and one can expect the demons to be freed to conduct other evil acts.

  Cal Thomas

  Evil, Political, Politics

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• When resistance is gone, the demons are gone.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Gone, Resistance

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• They say the streets is a demon in a dress,
  Wit dollar signs in her eyes and semen on her breath

  Lupe Fiasco

  Eye, Hip Hop, Dresses

  Song: Real Recognize Real

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• I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.

  John Lennon

  Meaningful, Song, Morning

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• Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.

  John Lennon

  Writing Songs, Songwriting, Songwriters

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• The occultist is brought into intelligent communication with the spirits of the air, and can receive any knowledge which they possess, or any false impression they choose to impart...the demons seem permitted to do various wonders at their request.

  G. H. Pember

  Communication, Intelligent, Air

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• Increasingly I felt as if I were entering a struggle that might even be more than life and death. It might be a struggle for my soul, my essence, or whatever part of me might have reference to the eternal. There are worse things than death, I suspected... so far the word demon had never been spoken among the scientists and doctors who were working with me...Alone at night I worried about the legendary cunning of demons ...At the very least I was going stark, raving mad.

  Whitley Strieber

  Struggle, Night, Essence

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• I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

  Whitley Strieber

  Suffering, Purpose, Might

  Whitley Strieber (1988). “Transformation”

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• I felt an absolutely indescribable sense of menace. It was hell on earth to be there [in the presence of the entities], and yet I couldn't move, couldn't cry out, couldn't get away. I'd lay as still as death, suffering inner agonies. Whatever was there seemed so monstrously ugly, so filthy and dark and sinister. Of course they were demons. They had to be. And they were here and I couldn't get away.

  Whitley Strieber

  Moving, Dark, Agony

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• A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Depression, Men, Hands

  D. H. Lawrence, Keith Sagar (1986). “Selected Poetry”, ePenguin

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• It’s therapy. It’s just something to do so you’re not lost in your own not-so-nice thoughts, and it’s an opportunity to think about something a lot nicer and to do something that’s with more purpose. So you do it, and you take your passion and you put a lot into it, and at some point you get recognized for it. But that recognition doesn’t mean the man is without his own demons or without his own struggles.

  Kai Greene

  Nice, Struggle, Passion

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