Top 33 Whom Gods Destroy Quotes
#1. Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).
Leo Tolstoy
#2. The underlying logic of sacrifice was always the same: In order to gain the god's goodwill, destroy what you value most.
Barry B. Powell
#3. The gods destroy the heroes with a sudden blow, but they grind us mediocrities for weary, weary years.
Robertson Davies
#4. Until he [man] has become fully human, until he learns to conduct himself as a member of the earth, he will continue to create gods who will destroy him. The tragedy of Greece lies not in the destruction of a great culture but in the abortion of a great vision.
Henry Miller
#5. We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.
Barry White
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.
Irving Layton
#9. Because you were tired of fighting heaven, you relaxed in that exhausting adventure in which you had to mutilate souls and destroy the world. In short, you chose injustice and sided with the gods. Your logic was merely apparent. I,
Albert Camus
#10. 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
#11. Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
Marty Rubin
#12. Man has been evolved and created the gods. Evolved more and decided to destroy all of them.
Emil A. Zafirov
#13. 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
#14. Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.
Euripides
#15. Aren't you capable of a sublime gesture on occasion? They all work so hard and struggle and suffer, trying to achieve beauty, trying to surpass one another in beauty. Let's surpass them all! Let's throw their sweat in their face. Let's destroy them at one stroke. Let's be gods. Let's be ugly.
Ayn Rand
#16. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.
Paul Henri Thiry D'Holbach
#17. 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
#18. Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.
Cyril Connolly
#19. In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.
Niall Ferguson
#20. Those who the gods seek to destroy first, learn how to play golf.
Leslie Nielsen
#21. Of course, it couldn't last. Those whom the gods would destroy utterly, they first give a taste of heaven.
Cory Doctorow
#22. It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.
Terry Pratchett
#24. Whom the gods would destroy, they first subsidize.
George Roche
#25. When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
Pearl S. Buck
#26. Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.
Twyla Tharp
#27. Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make proud,
Tom Clancy
#28. Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make bored.
Ian Fleming
#29. 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
#30. In the words of Euripides, 'those whom the Gods wish to destroy, first they make mad'.
Catharine Arnold
#31. Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods.
Bernard Levin
#32. 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
#33. Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.
Tom Robbins
