# The Atlantic Abomination

- Author: [John Brunner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner.md)
- Quotes: 2
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/the-atlantic-abomination

## Quotes

> Their lusts had known no limit until now. They had gorged themselves, surpassed their own imaginings again and again, recklessly squandering what they had supposed to be inexhaustible; they had been like children in a house filled with sweetmeats, destroying what they could not consume. Until now.
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> Now it was as though the planet itself was sick of their arrogance.

p. 5 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/the-atlantic-abomination/their-lusts-had.md)

> Men change their gods, and when they have changed them often enough they cease to fear their power.

p. 128 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/the-atlantic-abomination/men-change-their.md)