Devil Quote by Roger Ascham

“The first phase of modernism, which so far as the English language goes we associate with Pound and Yeats, Wyndham Lewis and Eliot and…

— Frank Kermode

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.

— Samuel Pepys

“As to what the things were—explanations naturally varied. The common name applied to them was “those ones,” or “the old ones,” though other terms…

— H.P. Lovecraft

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable,…

— Philip Kaufman

The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.

— L. Frank Baum

...the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means ‘hidden’ or ‘obscured.’ In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was counterdoctrinal had…

— Dan Brown

“Our house was an old Tudor mansion. My father was very particular in keeping the smallest peculiarities of his home unaltered. Thus the many…

— John Berwick Harwood

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of…

— James Madison

“One of Gunter’s fears was that the Bible was a ‘policy’, a deliberately manipulative hoax. This venerable theme, revived by Machiavelli, now seemed more…

— Alec Ryrie

“Every church became a theatre, where orators, instead of church teachers, harangued, caring not to instruct the people, but striving to attract admiration, to…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Our speech accurately reflects the prejudices of the ruling group. Since the rulers and the rich and the educated (who directed language) generally lived…

— Sydney J. Harris

Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption

— James Madison