Quote by Frank Herbert

“He looked up to the gods but never accepted their eternal superiority. For better or worse, plotting their overthrow was the only aspiration that…

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

“Ignorance and fear create the gods, enthusiasm and deceit adorn them, and human weakness worships them.”

— Graham McNeill

“Men fear joy too much, fear their instincts. Fear a surrender to their feelings. Fear loving themselves in others and loving others in themselves.…

— James Broughton

“men are strangely inclined to worship what they do not understand. A grand secret, upon which several imposers on mankind have totally relied for…

— Henry Fielding

“What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their troubles, when it is…

— Homer

“There is practically nothing that men do not prefer to God. A tiresome detail of business, an occupation utterly pernicious to health, the employment…

— François Fénelon

“Man must confront his worst fear to find his virtue.”

— Angela Brown

“It is the fear of God which gives us the confidence to face men and their evil and to be confident of ultimate victory.”

— R.J. Rushdoony

“It was a sad truth that all the masses of men in their causes would be led by ambitious men, by power-hungry, cunningly self…

— Oakley Hall

“When the gods amused themselves at a man’s expense, they had a tendency to overdue.”

— Josie Litton

“And how can man die better than by facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods.”

— Anonymous

“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