Book-quote Quote by W.M. Driscoll

“War needs no gods, only mortal contestants, two enemies and whatever reasons they invent in order to justify killing each other.”

— Steven Erikson

“The gods wanted war? They were about to get it.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“People create their own gods so that they could compete with other people's gods. It is not the humanity that fights but human gods.…

— Aporva Kala

“For to be human is not enough...when gods cry war amidst the thunder.”

— Alan Moore

“If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?”

— George R.R. Martin

“What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?”

— George R.R. Martin

“War is man’s business, not God’s,”

— Weina Dai Randel

“The ancients placed love and war in the hands of closely related gods.”

— John Steinbeck

“What good is it for, for you or me, a powerless God, ruthless? A God who sits in the clouds and tolerates malaria and…

— Freud Uhlman

“God does not make war? God makes us, and we make war. God makes war.”

— Aaron B. Powell

“War is ninety percent myth anyway, isn’t it? In order to prosecute our own wars we raise them to the level of human sacrifice,…

— Denis Johnson

“So if the gods fight,' I said, 'will things line up the way they did with the Trojan War? Will it be Athena versus…

— Rick Riordan