Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad (Latin).

It’s been well said—and by many people in many circumstances—that whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad. These people in the Deep South were mad because they could have elected Douglas, and Douglas would have given them everything they wanted—everything that they wanted that was consistent with his election in the free states.

Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.

For those whom God to ruin has design'd,
He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make bored.

Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make proud,

Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.

What a silly god, he makes everybody born bad to go to burning hell. Why so mad? All his fault!

684. When God will punish, He will first take away the understanding.

Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

I've been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems as if he's been lashing out, you know, destroying cities, annihilating places. It seems like he's been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he's been getting. If you look at the people who love God now, you know, if I was God, I'd need to destroy something.