Ancient Quote by Margaret Visser

“(Precisely because of this power that hope has of making the suffering hold out, the Greeks regarded it as the evil of evils, as…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

— Euripides

The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that…

— Stephen Fry

“The Greek gods had personalities like those of humans and struggled with one another for position and power. They did not love humans (although…

— Barry B. Powell

“The earliest Greek philosopher's criticized Homer's mythology because the gods resembled mortals too much and were just as egotistic and treacherous.”

— Jostein Gaarder

In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence.

— Philip Yancey

“How persistent it is, this demand that our gods be perfect. The Greeks were much more reasonable about such things.”

— Frank Herbert

The Greeks had considered hope the final evil in Pandora's box. They also gave us an image of perfect nobility: a human being lovingly…

— Walter Kaufmann

“The Greeks were more preoccupied with, where these ousted gods resided. That is: The fallen son's of God could go where humans were, but…

— Michael Ben Zehabe

God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.

— Peter Straub

“Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil men”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

The Greeks had had vast experience in this world, their imagination had been fertile and they had created much...that, in these circumstances, they should…

— Joseph Kastein