Gods Quotes
- Page 7Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris Murdoch
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Alexander Pope
Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
Taylor Caldwell
For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
Lactantius
Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine.
Germanicus
I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
Tarsem Singh
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
Henry Rollins
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
Henry Miller
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle