Quote by Ken Follett

“What we did in that momentous year of 1558 caused political strife, revolt, civil war, and invasion. There were times, in later years, when…

— Ken Follett

“Nearly everyone in ancient Egypt exhorted the gods to let the Pharaoh live 'forever. These collective prayers failed. Their failure constitutes data.”

— Carl Sagan

“And of all the plagues with which mankind are cursed, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.”

— Daniel Defoe

“My God, rather than come to such a pass it would have been better for the Jews and every one else, let alone the…

— Hermann Hesse

“A very interesting scene appears in the Bible right after the ten plagues. The Egyptians had enslaved the Jews and mistreated them, then they…

— Celso Cukierkorn

“Some days you were the plague, and some days you were the Egyptian.”

— Adrianne Brooks

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

— Graham McNeill

“Infernal woman, you nearly gave me an apoplexy. They ought to count you among the ten plagues of Egypt!”

— Kristen Callihan

“Had anyone suggested at the time that it would not be the Egypt of the pharaohs that would survive and change the moral landscape…

— Sheila Heti

“There would be no more offerings. Not this day. Not any day. Humankind had suffered enough for its love of gods, its long search…

— Dan Simmons

“If in some radical miracle, the Abrahamic God revealed his existence to the world, I’d accept the belief in the deity — but I…

— David G. McAfee

“Worship is a vigorous act of reordering our desires in the light of God's burning desire for the wellness of all creation.”

— Ellen F. Davis