#gods

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#cost #crammed #easily #fairly #few

In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#gods #government #house #in fact #men

He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods. ↗

— Maxwell Anderson

#gods #men #might #such #were

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ↗

— David Antin

#entertainment industry #gods #industry #language #may

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#defect #either #genius #given #gods

The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods. ↗

— Ludwig Borne

#difference #god #gods #great #liberties

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#commonwealth #conceive #gods #members #men

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#assert #believe #cannot #gods #had

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#appear #gods #invoke #much #never

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#always #away #corn #destroying #gods