Act of God is a legal term for events outside of human control, such as sudden floods or other natural disasters, for which no one can be held responsible.
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Famous quotes containing the words Act Of God, act of god, act of, act and/or god:
“An act of God was defined as “something which no reasonable man could have expected.””
—A.P. (Sir Alan Patrick)
“By act of Congress, male officers are gentlemen, but by act of God, we are ladies. We don’t have to be little mini-men and try to be masculine and use obscene language to come across. I can take you and flip you on the floor and put your arms behind your back and you’ll never move again, without your ever knowing that I can do it.”
—Sherian Grace Cadoria (b. 1940)
“It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is subject, if we could succeed in raising the responsible act of procreating children to the level of a deliberate and intentional activity and in freeing it from its entanglement with the necessary satisfaction of a natural need.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
“You can’t take back an act you were able to think.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)