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One tends to think that Putin is this diabolical man who controls all the things inside and outside of the Kremlin. That’s kind of true. He definitely has a lot of power over state agencies. He has a lot of power over business enterprises throughout the country and therefore the wealth of the country, but there’s something deeper here. Russia’s oligarchy, its mafia class and its security class have started to fuse to the point where you cannot untangle them from each other and they need each other. – Candace Rondeaux	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Putin needs military effectiveness at any cost, there is a negative diabolical charisma in [Prigozhin], and in a sense this charisma can compete with Putin’s. Putin now needs him in this capacity, in this form. – Andrei Kolesnikov	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is absolutely diabolical behavior, i ’m sorry, but Piers Morgan spouts off on a regular basis and we all have to sit there and listen. ? ITV then announced that Piers Morgan had decided to leave. – Alex Beresford	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America. – Jerry Falwell	added by Normando 5 years ago
Kim Yong Chol is a diabolical war criminal who attacked the South, he deserves death by hanging in the street. – Kim Sung-tae	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
God has a sense of humor. Why else would he invent the porcupine and the giraffe ? something can be devilishly funny, but this skit is diabolical. God has only one real enemy — Satan. Satan ridicules faith, and they’re taking Satan’s side. They’re also ridiculing me and the film, telling impressionableyoung people not to see it because it's ridiculous. Then they throw in that the lawyer is Jewish to make the Christian look even worse, but it’s just anti-Semitic. – Pat Boone	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It makes me sick, and it sends a very wrong message about what consent really means, consent is not the absence of a' no.' And when you put drugs and alcohol in the mix, and put a person into a state of impairment and incapacitation where they're not able to respond in a normal setting, it's manipulative. It's diabolical. It's controlling. And it's typical behavior and thinking of a sociopath. – Barbara Bowman	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It seems like this is a renegade contractor visiting abuse on military personnel and live animals, it’s mind-boggling. It’s like a diabolical mad scientist at work in a horror movie. – Hank Johnson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
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	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves. – C. C. Colton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. – A. E. Housman	added by anonymous 14 years ago

One tends to think that Putin is this diabolical man who controls all the things inside and outside of the Kremlin. That’s kind of true. He definitely has a lot of power over state agencies. He has a lot of power over business enterprises throughout the country and therefore the wealth of the country, but there’s something deeper here. Russia’s oligarchy, its mafia class and its security class have started to fuse to the point where you cannot untangle them from each other and they need each other.

– Candace Rondeaux

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Putin needs military effectiveness at any cost, there is a negative diabolical charisma in [Prigozhin], and in a sense this charisma can compete with Putin’s. Putin now needs him in this capacity, in this form.

– Andrei Kolesnikov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is absolutely diabolical behavior, i ’m sorry, but Piers Morgan spouts off on a regular basis and we all have to sit there and listen. ? ITV then announced that Piers Morgan had decided to leave.

– Alex Beresford

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America.

– Jerry Falwell

added by Normando
5 years ago

Kim Yong Chol is a diabolical war criminal who attacked the South, he deserves death by hanging in the street.

– Kim Sung-tae

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

God has a sense of humor. Why else would he invent the porcupine and the giraffe ? something can be devilishly funny, but this skit is diabolical. God has only one real enemy — Satan. Satan ridicules faith, and they’re taking Satan’s side. They’re also ridiculing me and the film, telling impressionableyoung people not to see it because it's ridiculous. Then they throw in that the lawyer is Jewish to make the Christian look even worse, but it’s just anti-Semitic.

– Pat Boone

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It makes me sick, and it sends a very wrong message about what consent really means, consent is not the absence of a' no.' And when you put drugs and alcohol in the mix, and put a person into a state of impairment and incapacitation where they're not able to respond in a normal setting, it's manipulative. It's diabolical. It's controlling. And it's typical behavior and thinking of a sociopath.

– Barbara Bowman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It seems like this is a renegade contractor visiting abuse on military personnel and live animals, it’s mind-boggling. It’s like a diabolical mad scientist at work in a horror movie.

– Hank Johnson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.

– C. C. Colton

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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

– A. E. Housman

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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