Demonism Quotes & Sayings

The Boy Scouts might have the motto "Be Prepared," but where I grew up, you practically went straight from diapers to manhood. — Phil Robertson

Bass bands, flags, banners, parades, and monster demonstrations are no different in principle from ecclesiastical processions, cannonades, and fireworks to scare off demons. Only, the suggestive parade of State power engenders a collective feeling of security which, unlike religious demonstrations, give the individual no protection against his inner demonism. Hence he will cling all the more to the power of the State, i.e., to the mass, thus delivering himself up to it psychically as well as morally and putting the finishing touch to his social depotentiation. The State, like the Church, demands enthusiasm, self-sacrifice, and love, and if religion requires or presupposes the "fear of God," then the dictator State takes good care to provide the necessary terror. — C. G. Jung

The important thing is the diversity available on the Web. — Tim Berners-Lee

I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians. — Thomas Jefferson

And what is the religion of many persons but a kind of demonism that delights in human sacrifices and causes them to look with horror on the greatest part of mankind? Plutarch, it is well known, has observed very justly that it is better not to believe in a god than to believe him to be a capricious and malevolent being. — Richard Price

If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself. — Lionel Trilling

(Those who) impute such actions to God, as make Him resemble the worst of beings, and so run into downright Demonism. — Matthew Tindal

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism. — Henry Ward Beecher

His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon of malignant spirit. It would be more pardonable to believe in no God at all, than to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin — Thomas Jefferson

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels. — C.V. Wedgwood

I can still crack a safe with one hand tied behind my back. I'm not proud of it. But I was always against society. — Evel Knievel

When looking to adopt a new dog, the most important thing to consider is always the energy of the dog and how the dog will fit in with your lifestyle and your family. — Cesar Millan

When she turned around, her bowl of popcorn wrapped in her arms, she smacked straight into Dylan, sending her popcorn flying. "Jesus Christ, can't you wear a bell or something?" she yelled. "How the hell did you get down here so quietly? Oh my God, my popcorn," she whined. — Casey Holman

I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could. — Greg Ginn