Those Whom The Gods Wish To Destroy Quotes

#1. Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make bored.

Ian Fleming

#2. It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

John Boyd Orr

#3. In the words of Euripides, 'those whom the Gods wish to destroy, first they make mad'.

Catharine Arnold

#4. Aegistheus, the kings have another secret ... Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the Gods can do nothing against that man. It is a matter for men to handle amongst themselves, and it is up to other men and to them alone to let him flee or to destroy him.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#5. Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.

Euripides

#6. The Nazi regime intended eventually to destroy Christianity in Germany, if it could, and substitute the old paganism of the early Germanic gods and the new paganism of the Nazi extremists.

William L. Shirer

#7. Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.

Marty Rubin

#8. Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.

Irving Layton

#9. What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen. But why is that bad? Isn't it that way? Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small ... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

Philip K. Dick

#10. The gods destroy the heroes with a sudden blow, but they grind us mediocrities for weary, weary years.

Robertson Davies

#11. The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy; that in his nature is more of Vishnu the Creator than of Siva the Destroyer.

George Amos Dorsey

#12. In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.

Niall Ferguson

#13. Of course, it couldn't last. Those whom the gods would destroy utterly, they first give a taste of heaven.

Cory Doctorow

#14. When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

Pearl S. Buck

#15. Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make proud,

Tom Clancy

#16. Anything is possible with a parent. Parents are gods. They make us and they destroy us. They warp the world and remake it in their own shape, and that's the world we know forever after. It's the only world. We can't see what it might have looked like otherwise.

David Vann

#17. I am Isis, Queen of this country. I was instructed by Mercury. No one can destroy the laws which I have established. I am the eldest daughter of Saturn, most ancient of the Gods.

Albert Pike