"All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood."
React to this quote
More by Zora Neale Hurston
See allResonant Thoughts
"We know only too well that all over the world, from wayward undergraduate to B. B. C. producer to publisher's reader there are people, otherwise sensible and sane, people who would not believe in six-…"
"If we would return to the shaggy condition of primitive ages, we need only acquire an environment which will favor from age to age those whose peripheries retain to the intensest extent the hirsute te…"
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"Remember it is essential to reach ever more of our folk with the message of racial survival. I wish you all…"
— David Lane (white nationalist)"I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it …"
— W. Somerset Maugham"To see that He doeth it, and to pray forthwithal, — so is He worshiped and we sped. All-thing that our Lord…"
— Julian of Norwich"When we encounter a face, we view it as a whole, by a process of integration of the parts, which takes plac…"
— Zia Haider Rahman"Chorus : Yet I have not been seen frequenting the wrestling school intoxicated with success and trying to s…"
— Aristophanes"When the act of navigation was made, though England and Holland were not actually at war, the most violent …"
— Adam Smith
