“A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.”

“For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness”

“He was very close to Jawaharlal Nehru. He could have joined the Central Cabinet much earlier but the Chief Minister of Assam, wanted him to work with him and resisted his going to the centre.”

“The summit of evil, the crime most natural to the devil, pride, was born of knowledge. But if this is so, how can it be possible that all the passions result from ignorance? Does knowledge purify the psyche? Paul says: Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up”

“From a very early stage the ideological history of the bourgeoisie was nothing but a desperate resistance to every insight into the true nature of the society it had created.”

“I decided that the devil finds work for idle hands and thanked him for his suggestion.”

“Tolstoy was an advocate of non-resistance only because he was protected from people’s impudence by his innumerable friends. One man can stand for non-resistance, because those who stand for resistance will protect him. You will not be able to do without resistance advocates.”

“When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.”

“The Devil was sick,—the Devil a monk would be;
The Devil was well,—the devil a monk was he.”

“The non-Christian can put no question which is not necessarily that of the Christian dogmatician as well. … In solidarity with the non-Christian, he has no prior knowledge. He must begin from the very beginning with no presupposed consciousness of God. He must learn to spell out the message which comes to him as to every man.”