Crusades Quote by Wole Soyinka

I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great.

— Guillermo del Toro

Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator…

— Umberto Eco

Monsters exist because we create them, through war and violence, and distortion, and the way we handle people and so on.

— Leon Golub

It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as persecution for…

— Laurence Sterne

... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.

— Iris Murdoch

...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

— Anonymous

Monsters are evangelical creatures for me.

— Guillermo del Toro

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.

— Thomas Howard

While some monsters claim to be god-like, the children screaming in fear.

— Me

Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but…

— PZ Myers