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“Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is that there never will be such a thrust so long as you’re enacting a story that says the gods made the world for man. For as long as you enact that story, Mother Culture will demand increased food production today—and promise population control tomorrow.”
Daniel Quinn (1935–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world must live, the world must live! We are only one species among billions. The gods don’t love us more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.”
Daniel Quinn (1935–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The pope knows the people he is trying to reach. Over the years, though, my experience with a few members of these splinter groups has convinced me that the Latin Mass is at most a rallying point, a handy focus. The real issues go much deeper, into faith, the meaning of church and Gods salvific will.”
Emil Aloysius Wcela (1931–2022) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Dinosaur Ponders The Latin Mass (8 October 2007) America
“I am a scientist. I do not believe in gods or demons.”
Ryk E. Spoor (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do know, that gods are wont to make use of human instruments in approaching men. The Infinite finds expression in the finite, and the ideal is realised in the actual.”
J. E. Casely Hayford (1866–1930) said by 1930 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Their knowledge and their faculty of observation were extraordinary. By their study of the world the Greeks illuminate not only their own nature but that of all other ancient peoples; without them, and the phillhellenic Romans, there would be no knowledge of past times, for all other nations attended to nothing but themselves, their own citadels, temples and gods.”
Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897) said by 1897 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As Cuauhtin tells it, white Christians committed 'theocide' against indigenous spirituality. Those deities must be resurrected and restored to their rightful place in the social justice cosmology. It is, in a philosophical sense, a revenge of the gods.”
Christopher Rufo (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pour libation, summon the gods,utter sacred words, assemble diviners and sorcerers recapture the present, make peace, return to the earth,the spell”
Véronique Tadjo (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fight between the gods and the monster or monsters certainly has an astral, and perhaps even cosmic, character, and could for example symbolize the succession or conflict of the seasons as it manifests itself in nature. (p. 14)”
Giuseppe Furlani (1885–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ea is the great advisor of the gods, and it is therefore natural that he is the first to be aware of the evil that Tiāmat was preparing. (p. 83)”
Giuseppe Furlani (1885–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“According to the Babylonian concept, men are, compared to the gods, immensely stupid and ignorant. (p. 98)”
Giuseppe Furlani (1885–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It can be said that every elegy of Mimnermo is marked by the darkest pessimism. For him, what is life worth? It has value as long as the beautiful youth lasts, after which, ceases all enjoyment for the mortal. He undergoes old age, laborious at the will of the Gods, while a thousand and a thousand afflictions afflict man in his short earthly career.”
Italo Pizzi (1849–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I write to get out, to escape from these infinite, useless stories of nothing that are the trials, the wars, the expeditions, the conquests, even the gods: millions of grains of Syriac sand that a wave is enough to sweep them away.”
Roberto Vecchioni (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't be scared if I hurt you because | I do to others what I would like them to do to me, | complementary poles, you hate me, I love you, we are like dictionaries, we are Gods | synonyms and antonyms. (from Van Damme (Saddam), n. 5)”
Dargen D'Amico (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing binds men as closely as Truth and Virtue. Tito was compassionate and full of goodness; and Marcus Aurelius was educated and a true philosopher, that is, a friend of wisdom. He knew how to admire and imitate Titus, and together with virtue and science he combined the courage and genius of heroes, gods and great captains, as well as the art or qualities of great administrators. (p. 26)”
Ion Heliade Rădulescu (1802–1872) said by 1872 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Commenting on the Apollo of the Belvedere] Apollo's body offers an absolute contrast to those of the gods and giants of the Pergamon frieze. There the muscles are all indicated, as if the artist took pleasure in giving them special prominence; here, however, the skeleton is covered with flesh, and on the flesh you can see the epidermis and you can see more elegance than strength. (p. 70)”
Salomon Reinach (1858–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Moving on in time, if you look at today’s world, faith, religion, race, as well as due to territorial rights and various other reasons, among countries in mutual relationships, there are still wars or ethnic disputes. It is not rare that the gods who are supposed to save people’s hearts have ignited the flames of war.”
Kazuki Takahashi (1961–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While bravehearts like Velu Nachiyar or the Marudhu brothers may have been eclipsed in our historiography, their heroism lives on in ballads, folk songs and folk memory, even as they are immortalized and worshipped as gods in temples built for them by villagers. Where popular historiography failed them, folk memory redeemed this lapse and kept them alive till date.”
Velu Nachiyar (1730–1796) said by 1796 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sampath V. (2022). Bravehearts of Bharat : vignettes from indian history. Penguin Random House India
“Among the first groups of beings with whom men must have made contracts were the spirits of the dead and the gods. They in fact are the real owners of the world's wealth. With them it was particularly necessary to exchange and particularly dangerous not to; but, on the other hand, with them exchange was easiest and safest.”
Marcel Mauss (1872–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My wish is to be free from the modern cave, which is filled with self-founded nihilism, enchantment by earthly gods (taghutzadegi), and historicism. This is my ideal, and wherever I see a lack of angered fists and the prevalence of compromise, I will be disappointed... because to possess and insist on a position is the right move.”
Ahmad Fardid (1909–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted from: Farhang Rajaee, Islamism and Modernism: The Changing Discourse in Iran, University of Texas Press (2010), p. 182.
“For Gonda, “chariot drives and other races have often the function of regenerating the productive forces in nature,” while the gods “are described as driving swift horses [10.92.6 ...,] as approaching the sacrificers in their chariots [1.84.18, 7.2.5]” (Gonda 1965: 72, 98).”
Jan Gonda (1905–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Danino, M. (2019). Demilitarizing the Rigveda: a scrutiny of Vedic horses, chariots and warfare., STUDIES IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Journal of the Inter-University Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences VOL. …
“The Gods are not of Rome or Italy: They dwell in earth's abyss or with the stars, Their shrines are where we bring heroic hearts.”
John Nichol (biographer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s a funny thing about the old gods,” he said. “You think that just because they’re old they must be difficult to kill. But when the fighting starts, they go down just like anybody else. They aren’t stronger, they’re just older.”
Lev Grossman (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some megalithic burials have yielded iron or bronze objects such as mother goddess, horned masks, the trishul etc. As the archaeologist I. K. Sarma observes, such objects are intimately connected with the worship of brahmanical Gods of the historical period, such as øiva, Kàrtikeya and later Ambà. The diadems of Adichanallur burials are like the mouth-pieces used by the devotees of Murugan.”
Inguva Kartikeya Sarma (1937–2013) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I. K. Sarma, Religion in Art and Historical Archaeology of South India (Madras : University of Madras, 1987), p. 33.
“It's us, not the gods, who created war. It's us, we human beings, who can kill it.”
Femi Osofisan (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The gods are out to punish human beings who she claims ‘learn only from suffering and pain.”
Femi Osofisan (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Happiness is a fake. The gods employ it as a mask to trick us each time they are about to plunge us into grief.”
Femi Osofisan (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It started raining badly.... The gods were against me”
Benjamin Kwakye (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Getting fresh palm fronds on this planet is rare, and even if we manage to find one, will the rain gods hear our chants at all, despite being light years away from home?”
Mazi Nwonwu wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Women are gods on earth.”
Wizkid (born 1990) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Women are "God" on earth. 19 July 2023, The Guardian Newspaper.
“I sometimes think stone is too precious truly, Bronze far too permanent for human clods Whom men rush in to celebrate unduly: Immortal stuff is for immortal gods Carved by great artists. Let the celebration Of men be in such stuff as may be pulped; Reserve the rock for glorious inspiration: Venus to pose, to sculpt.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pulped for Posterity", in Random Verse (1952)
“Your heroes aren't gods, they're just regular people who probably got good at one thing by neglecting literally everything else.”
Jason Pargin (born 1975) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Learning Day: Jason Pargin's Alpha Success Method", 1-900-HOTDOG, January 20, 2022.
“And the sun left the lovely lake and clomb Upward across the sky's brass-paven dome, To light the deathless gods, and mortal men That have the acres of the corn for home.”
John William Mackail (1859–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“De aarde is Gods dienst aan alle mensen.”
Arnol Kox (1952–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the gods were witness when I was being violated.”
Salman Haidar (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Literary critics might claim that they know why Shakespeare became Shakespeare, but the truth is they don’t. If you asked me how a book becomes a classic, I’d say it’s a matter for the gods.”
Ainehi Edoro wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are many gods, but this one is ours.”
Scott Alexander (born 1963) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Meditations On Moloch (July 30, 2014)
“If the gods have no sense of humour they must weep a great deal.”
John Oliver Hobbes (1867–1906) said by 1906 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Gods who left thousands of years ago in Milan (Europe) are still in India.”
Francesco Clemente (born 1952) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted and attributed in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture
“The great pre-Christian civilizations of Greece and Rome had no religious wars and had a far healthier view of their frolicking gods and goddesses than the intolerant monotheistic Christianity that later came to dominate Europe.”
Jean-Pierre Lehmann (1945–2017) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lehmann, Jean-Pierre The Dangers of Monotheism in the Age of Globalization The Globalist.com - Global Development Thursday, March 30, 2006
“Greek and Roman religion depended on images, quite literally: there were no sacred laws or scripture and certainly no organised church or priesthood to police practice and correct error. It was in their images and their names that the gods persisted for at least two thousand years from the Bronze Age to the purges organised by monotheist emperors.”
Greg Woolf (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am not religious but I pray through my work to unknown devils and gods. I look for my soul in colors and empty my being through parables of rusted, lost metal doors.”
“Never say, 'She is only a feeble and ignorant woman, how can she rule such a vast empire?' I will rule here, to the good fortune of my people and the glory of my name! I will worship no gods but those of my ancestors.”
Ranavalona I (1788–1861) said by 1861 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In David Anthony’s pithy phrase, ‘The Rig Veda was a ritual canon, not a racial manifesto. If you sacrificed in the right way to the right gods, which required performing the great traditional prayers in the traditional language, you were an Aryan, otherwise you were not.’”
David W. Anthony (born 2000) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in : Nick Collins - How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World (2022)
“V.M. Apte strikes a neutral note: "Whether fetishism is to be read into a reference to an image of Indra and whether the worship of idols or images of gods was known to the Rigveda, are points on which no certain conclusions can be reached.”
Vaman Shivram Apte (1858–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in The Problem of Aryan Origins by K.D. Sethna, Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi, 1992.
“Our friend alcohol was given us of the gods to make us see for a while that we are more nearly men and women, more nearly kind and gentle and generous, pleasanter and stronger, than without its vision there is any evidence we are.”
Bernard DeVoto (1897–1955) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Our Friend Alcohol", in Harper's (c. 1948). Collected, and revised, in The Hour (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1951), ch. 5 (pp. 83, 84):
“These beings have also been called 'not divine' (a-deva) and 'not human' (a-miin~a), which shows that they were something between men and gods, i.e., they were demons.”
Kshetresa Chandra Chattopadhyaya (1896–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in The Problem of Aryan Origins by K.D. Sethna, Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi, 1992.
“Not ringed but rare, not gilled but polyp-like, having sprung up overnight— These mushrooms of the gods, resembling human organs uprooted, rooted only on the air,”
William Jay Smith (1918–2015) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Morels", sts. 9–10. The Tin Can, and Other Poems (Delacorte Press, 1966), p. 3
“The Chinese hold some particular kinds of flowers in great veneration, especially the , which they call Too Chong Fa: its flowers are deemed grateful to the gods; and, accordingly. at the commencement of the ,when the plant is generally in blossom, large branches with flowers are placed in all the temples as an acceptable new year's offering.”
Henry Phillips (horticulturist) first seen 1824 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (quote from p. xviii; 1st edition 1824)
“All creatures fear change, even the gods.”
Raymond E. Feist (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source