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Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner.

Desmond Tutu

Hate, Compassion, Deeds

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The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy.

B. R. Ambedkar

Names, Humanity, Would Be

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It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as persecution for difference of opinion in religious tenets, there never happened to be any inquisition, any auto da fe, any crusade, among the Pagans.

Laurence Sterne

Religious, Differences, Spirit

Laurence Sterne (1803). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself ...”, p.43

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You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It's a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.

Catherine the Great

Alcohol, Stronger, Want

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A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

Arthur Miller

Political, Moral, Malevolence

Arthur Miller (2015). “The Crucible”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing

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In the tangled hierarchy sinner and saint, divine and diabolical, sacred and profane are different faces of our collective Being. Therefore angry activism driven by rage, however justified it seems, is really not going to work. I believe that the tangled hierarchy wants us to move to the next state of evolution and very strongly desires us to take that quantum leap of creativity.

Deepak Chopra

Moving, Believe, Creativity

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Fatal North was being poisoned to death aboard his own vessel and by someone from his hand-picked crew... a cold-blooded, calculating, pre-meditated murder by a diabolical killer.

Bruce Henderson

Hands, Killers, Cold

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I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

George Bernard Shaw

Men, Mind, Forgiving

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I think evil is our collective shadow. Each one of us has a tendency for the diabolical. If I put you in inhumane conditions, if you're not educated, if you're extremely poor, if you're humiliated, then as a child if you suffer abuse, then you will manifest even when you grow up.

Deepak Chopra

Children, Growing Up, Thinking

"Deepak Chopra Traces Jesus' Untold Story". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. November 10, 2008.

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The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or limited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same [whether] in a majority of a popular assembly; an aristocratic council; or oligarchical junto and a single emperor - equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody and in every respect diabolical.

John Adams

Political, Arbitrary, Fundamentals

John Adams' Letter to Thomas Jefferson, founders.archives.gov. November 13, 1815.

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Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was. It not only divides States and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine.

Henry David Thoreau

Perception, Church, Doe

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.202, Graphic Arts Books

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Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.

Ruth Hurmence Green

Atheist, Thinking, Taught

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When thou diest, thy soul will be tormented alone; that will be a hell for it, but at the day of judgment they body will join thy soul, and then thou wilt have twin hells, thy soul sweating drops of blood, and thy body suffused with agony. In fire exactly like that which we have on earth thy body will lie, asbestos-like, forever unconsumed, all they veins roads for the feet of pain to travel on, every nerve a string on which the devil shall forever play his diabolical tune of 'Hell's Unutterable Lament'.

Charles Spurgeon

Pain, Lying, Fire

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Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.

Swami Vivekananda

Power, Evil, Used

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1207, Manonmani Publishers

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What happened to your stammer?" "I suppose I must feel comfortable with you. I tend to stammer less with certain people." "No one's ever told me that I'm a comfortable sort. I'm sure I don't like it. I'll have to do something diabolical soon to correct your impression.

Lisa Kleypas

People, Certain, Impression

Lisa Kleypas (2009). “The Devil in Winter”, p.38, Harper Collins

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And lo and behold, my diabolical plan is working.

Cassandra Clare

Plans

Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.916, Simon and Schuster

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The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching.

John Adams

Atheism, Preaching, Malice

John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.35

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That's right," he said. "I created a a bunch of Forsaken Warriors, had them attack the Institute and kill Madeleine and nearly kill the rest of us, just so that I could keep Clary from at home. And lo and behold, my diabolical plan is working.

Cassandra Clare

Home, Warrior, Said

Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind.

Anais Nin

Destiny, Soul, Dreamer

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Diabolical error decks itself out with ease in lying colors with some appearance of truth, so that the force of pronouncement is corrupted by a very brief addition or change, and the confession of faith which should have resulted in salvation, by a subtle transition leads to death!

Pope Clement XIII

Lying, Color, Should Have

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In prayer and in every work of your life avoid suspicious ness, doubt and diabolical imaginations. Let your spiritual eye be single, in order that the whole body of your prayer, of your works and of your life may be light.

John of Kronstadt

Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

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O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.

Victor Hugo

Angel, Night, Sky

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I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical.

Erin O'Connor

Loss, Thinking, Perception

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Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.

John Bunyan

Should, Word Of God

John Bunyan, George Burder (1821). “The Holy War Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World, Or The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of Mansoul”, p.13

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There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.

Umberto Eco

Pain, Animal, Heaven

Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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