A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
Emile M. Cioran

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
William Faulkner

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

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
Ernest Shackleton

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
Friedrich Schiller

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
Aldous Huxley

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
Anita Brookner

All the gods are dead except the god of war.
Eldridge Cleaver

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Charles A. Beard

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.
Neil Gaiman

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
Thomas B. Macaulay

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
Samuel Butler

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.
Phyllis Schlafly

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.
Lukas Foss

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
Zora Neale Hurston

Anyway, the title The War of the Insect Gods came before we had that ending, before we knew they had become gods. That we knew the evolutionary cycle they went through. Before we even knew anything about that. We had an ending.
Michael O'Donoghue

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris Murdoch

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare

As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like.
Protagoras

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.
Hesiod