Fear first created the gods.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

— George Santayana

Fear created gods; audacity created kings.

— Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon

Fear created the first gods in the world.

— Caecilius Statius

“If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned or…

— Baron D. Holbach

“It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds - this, and that brief madness of bliss which is experienced only by those who…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and…

— Baron d'Holbach

“Fear of each other created law, fear of the unknown created religion”

— Chuck Hanna

“Fear can be created quickly; trust can’t.”

— Ed Catmull

Fear is created which can lead to racism. However, we can overcome that fear through trust.

— Tariq Ramadan

We are the ones that never let our dream get away… We stood up, ran against the wind to chase the dream we longed…

— Neo Moate

“God didn't create the fear, fear created the God. God didn't create humans, Humans created the God because of their fear.”

— John Art

“He knew, as a man used to fear, the great danger of letting it take control. It distorted reality. Consumed reality. Fear created its…

— Louise Penny

The miasma of fear that is created through voter suppression is as much about terrifying people about trying to vote as it is about…

— Stacey Abrams

“One of Richard Dawkins’s main God Delusion arguments is that, if God created everything, we would have to ask who created God. But the…

— John C. Lennox

In the beginning of their end, people created their gods and their after-lives.

— Ryan Miller