“Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.”
Source: Voice of the Gods
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Australian writer 1969Related quotes
“Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh book Gift from the Sea
Source: Gift from the Sea
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
From 1980s onwards, Norie Huddle interview (1981)
Context: There’s a built-in resistance to letting humanity be a success. Each one claims that their system is the best one for coping with inadequacy. We have to make them all obsolete. We need to find within technology that there is something we can do which is capable of taking care of everybody, and to demonstrate that this is so. That’s what geodesic domes are about and that’s what my whole life has been about. Don't fight forces, use them.
Clive Staples Lewis book A Grief Observed
A Grief Observed (1961)
Context: Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask — half our great theological and metaphysical problems — are like that.
“Sometimes, mortals did indeed forget. Sometimes, mortals needed … reminding.”
Steven Erikson book Toll the Hounds
Toll the Hounds (2008)
Context: Sometimes, mortals did indeed forget. Sometimes, mortals needed... reminding.
Shu-Sin Sumerian king
To his general Sharrum-bani, Letter from Shu-Suen to Sharrum-bani about digging a trench http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section3/tr3116.htm, Correspondence of the Kings of Ur, Old Babylonian period, ca. 1800-1600 BCE, at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature; their original date of composition and their historical accuracy are debated.
