The gods are out to punish human beings who she claims 'learn only from suffering and pain.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

God is only mocked by believers.

Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.

And he lifted his clenched fists above his head, and with glaring eyes raised and writhing lips flecked with froths, he cursed the sky and the earth and the spheres above and below. He cursed the cold stars, the blazing sun, the mocking moon and the whisper of the wind. He cursed all fates and destinies, all that he had loved or hated, the silent cities beneath the seas, the past ages and the future eons. In one soul-shaking burst of blasphemy he cursed the gods and devils who made mankind their sport, and he cursed Man who lives blindly on and blindly offers his back to the iron-hoofed feet of his gods.

Only cowards insult dying majesty.

Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.

As dreadful as the Manichean god, Adored through fear, strong only to destroy.

Only gods and television audiences see the pattern of human events.

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

To take away life is a power which the vilest of the earth have in common; to give it belongs to gods and kings alone.

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

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

Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, 'Thou shalt make no graven image.'