# Quote — Marion L. Starkey, The Devil in Massachusetts

> If such were the will of God, what wonder that so many had turned to the devil?

- Author: [Marion L. Starkey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marion-l-starkey.md)
- Book: [The Devil in Massachusetts](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marion-l-starkey/the-devil-in-massachusetts.md)
- Page: 248
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marion_L._Starkey#The_Devil_in_Massachusetts:_A_Modern_Enquiry_into_the_Salem_Witch_Trials_(1949)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/marion-l-starkey/the-devil-in-massachusetts/if-such-were

## More from this book

> Treat a child like a witch and you’ll have one.

p. 152 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marion-l-starkey/the-devil-in-massachusetts/treat-a-child.md)

> At such moments the voice of reason always sounds like blasphemy and dissenters are of the devil.

p. 102 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marion-l-starkey/the-devil-in-massachusetts/at-such-moments.md)

> It’s bad business meddling with the devil; it makes you superstitious.

p. 18 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marion-l-starkey/the-devil-in-massachusetts/its-bad-business.md)