“What's worse…?
The devil you don't know… or the devil you do?”
Jodi Picoult book Keeping Faith
Source: Keeping Faith
“Generation after generation, humankind fights to preserve the status quo, maintaining "better the devil you know than the devil you don't know," a bit of folk cynicism that assumes the unknown to be dangerous.”
Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Seven, Right Power, p. 197
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Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
"Heartattack and Vine", Heartattack and Vine (1980).
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Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 28
“You knew better than to pay mind to what people and the devil say.”
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Godlike in giving, but the devil to pay.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
On a Cast of Sheridan's Hand.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Every ruler wants to maintain the status quo.”
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