Demonising Quotes & Sayings

The God way. Talking about God this and God that. Fuck God, he had actually wanted to say. Fuck God for having made this world, fucked be his name, now and for fucking ever, fuck God for our lives, fuck God for not saving us, fuck God for not being here and for not saving the men burning on the fucking bamboo. — Richard Flanagan

It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate. — Terry Eagleton

Opportunity only gives you knockers once. — Pamela Anderson

Heaven, where I shall live and die.' L — Marie Baudouin-Croix

No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind. — Lindsay Duncan

May God give us much more grace eagerly devote ourselves for the Great Commission. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Well, in this case, your friend's finest clothes,' Shazad said.
Friends. The simple word grabbed my attention. I'd been shedding friends since Tamid.
Shazad must've caught my hesitation. 'I have other khalats. If you don't like it,' she said quickly, pushing a loose strand of hair back behind her ear like she was nervous, only that was impossible. — Alwyn Hamilton

People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe. — Kenneth Kaunda

Some people say I make mistakes. I just say that in fact this is the secret of enjoying life. I hate monotony. Why don't they leave me freedom of choice? People want to impose choices which aren't necessarily mine. That's the mistake people make. — Bode Miller

I have never left you. And I never told you you couldn't go outside. Take your children and go outside and play and shop. Resume your life. What are you afraid of? — Kim De Blecourt

Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action. — Willem Dafoe

If I could only keep up my spirit- if I could only play the game according to the sportsman's code which Rita had been trying to teach me so gravely and so sweetly- if I could only, I told myself, do that, then in the long run, all might be right between us- because I had not nagged her or wearied her, because I had proved myself her peer, as prompt to offer all for love and as brave to bear its passing. If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart, the fires which keep the poet alive as the citizen never lives, but which burn all the roofs of security! — Edmund Wilson

Look for the opportunity, not for the consistency. — Debasish Mridha

Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end. — Dogen

You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you. — Judith Light

They're for exercise, I think." "I've heard that," the old man said. "That Americans do pointless labor for fun. — Adam Johnson

A hunter? You? You can not be a hunter. You are a GIRL. - Perin Ibarra to Faiel, in the Dragon Reborn — Robert Jordan

We are unlike our animal kin in another way. Only human beings kill and die for the sake of beliefs about themselves and the nature of the world. Looking for sense in their lives, they attack others who find meaning in beliefs different from their own. The violence of faith cannot be exorcised by demonising religion. It goes with being human. — John N. Gray

That was the only reason I let her stay extra time at the park the next day. We were not waiting for anyone in particular to show up or hoping for anyone in particular to show up. I mean, she's a dog. She didn't care if she was wrestling a stick from another mutt or a Pug or a Dachshund or whatever. Neither of us cared a bit who was or was not there. I was simply letting her make up for the time she missed the previous day. — Amanda Hamm