Diabolical Quotes

• I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian.

  Hillary Clinton

  Christian, Mind, Republican

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• God bless the America we are trying to create.

  Hillary Clinton

  America, Trying, God Bless

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• The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good.

  Franz Kafka

  Seduction, Assuming, Sometimes

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Depression, Mental Illness, Inexplicable

  Octave Mirbeau (1997). “Torture Garden”, Dedalus Limited

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• The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition enjoy their own acts of beneficence equally with those to whom they are done, so there are scarce any natures so entirely diabolical as to be capable of doing injuries without paying themselves some pangs for the ruin which they bring on their fellow-creatures.

  Henry Fielding

  Believe, Men, Evil

  Henry Fielding (1975). “The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling”, p.765, Wesleyan University Press

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• To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.

  Georges Canguilhem

  Errors, Persist, Humans

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• When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Political, Politics, Politician

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• Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for jealousy's sake, and anger's sake, and hatred's sake, and selfishness' sake, and spiritual pride's sake; but no man that ever I heard of, ever committed a diabolical murder for sweet charity's sake. Mere self-interest, then, if no better motive can be enlisted, should, especially with high-tempered men, prompt all beings to charity and philanthropy.

  Herman Melville

  Wise, Spiritual, Sweet

  Herman Melville (1995). “Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall-Street”, p.29, Lulu.com

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• In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

  A. E. Housman

  Funny, Sarcastic, Air

  "Voices: A Memoir". Book by Frederic Prokosch, 1983.

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• It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get.

  Jeff Beck

  People, Amy, Want

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• I'm sure that there must have been times when you have read books or watched films and found yourself secretly wishing for the villain to win. Why? Isn't that against the rules by which our society lives? Why should you feel this way? It's simple, really; the villain is the true hero of these tales, not the well-intentioned moron who somehow foils their diabolical scheme. The villain get's all the best lines, has the best costumes, has unlimited power and wealth- why on earth would anyone not want to be the villain?

  Mark Walden

  Book, Hero, Winning

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• By rejecting faith in Jesus Christ, America has also rejected God's protective hand, which until recently, sheltered this nation from harm. We have invited the devil which all his diabolical and destructive power in our daily lives.

  Bill Bright

  Jesus, America, Hands

  Bill Bright, John N. Damoose (1998). “Red Sky in the Morning”

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• Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Years, Long, Tree

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.10

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• We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.

  Edmund Burke

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770) p. 30

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• Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

  Al Pacino

  Hard Work, Acting, Joyful

  "Our December 1992 Cover Story: 'Family Values'" by Jonathan Poneman, scrapsfromtheloft.com. December 12, 2017.

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• To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Party, Opposites, Impressive

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• The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

  George Mason

  Slavery, States, Mankind

  George Mason's address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 17, 1788.

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• Who is going to find out? These women are trash. Nobody’s going to believe them.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Trash

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• I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

  Hillary Clinton

  Stupid, Personality, President

  "Blood Sport: The President and His Adversaries". Book by James B. Stewart, February 1996.

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• He ran a gas station down in St. Louis. No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.

  Hillary Clinton

  Leader, Gas Stations, Century

  "MEANWHILE: Gandhi, for one, would have found it funny". Salil Tripathi, International Herald Tribune, January 21, 2004.

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• A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Knowledge, Tree, Library

  1775 Sir Anthony Absolute. The Rivals, act 1, sc.2.

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• The Constitution of the United States. It's still the best document of its kind, and written into it are exactly the kind of protections that ensure that no person or group of persons, no matter how diabolical or insane, can hijack the country for much longer than a decade.

  John Roderick

  Country, Insane, Groups

  "How About a Little Hope?" by Litsa Dremousis, www.esquire.com. July 30, 2007.

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• That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such business.

  James Madison

  Religious, Religion, Liberty

  James Madison (1867). “1769-1793. v.2. 1794-1815. v.3. 1816-1828. v.4. 1829-1836”, p.12

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• Beautiful and diabolical. You make me impatient indeed to claim you.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Beautiful, Impatient, Claims

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• The diabolical work that has taken place since the legalization of abortion is that it has destroyed, in those tragic women who have allowed their child to be murdered, their sense for the sacredness of maternity. Abortion not only murders the innocent; it spiritually murders women... the wound created in their souls is so great that only God's grace can heal it. The very soul of a woman is meant to be maternal.

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Children, Taken, Abortion

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