Origin
Biblical references to the fall of Lucifer or Satan do not quote these words.
However, in the Latin Vulgate, Jeremiah laments that the people of Israel speak "Non serviam" to express their rejection of God.
The words became a general expression of the basic manner of rejecting God, such that it would apply to the fall of Lucifer. The words have thus been attributed to Lucifer.
In modern times "Non serviam" developed also into a general phrase used by modernists to express radical, sometimes even revolutionary rejection of conformity, not necessarily limited to religious matters only and as expressed in modern literary adaptations of the motto.
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