Malevolent Deity Country

Famous quotes containing the words malevolent, deity and/or country:

“Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Man disavows, the Deity disowns me.
Hell might afford my miseries a shelter;
Therefore hell keeps her everhungry mouths all
Bolted against me.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)

“We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.”
—A.J.P. (Alan John Percivale)