# Quote — Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light

> "Men no longer fear Heaven so much as they used to. They are more willing to defend themselves; and now that they are better equipped, the gods are less willing to face them."
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> "Then Sam is winning. Across the years, he is beating them."

- Author: [Roger Zelazny](https://www.leafyquotes.com/roger-zelazny.md)
- Book: [Lord of Light](https://www.leafyquotes.com/roger-zelazny/lord-of-light.md)
- Page: 258
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lord_of_Light#SEVEN) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/roger-zelazny/lord-of-light/men-no-longer

## More from this book

> I do not have the time to give you more than my contempt.

p. 181 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/roger-zelazny/lord-of-light/i-do-not.md)

> I shall return to being a man, and I shall let the people keep the Buddha who is in their hearts. Whatever the source, the message was pure, believe me. That is the only reason it took root and grew.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/roger-zelazny/lord-of-light/i-shall-return.md)

> "I decided that mankind could live better without gods. If I disposed of them all, people could start having can openers and cans to open again, and things like that, without fearing the wrath of Heaven. We've stepped on these poor fools enough. I wanted to give them a chance to be free, to build what they wanted."
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> "But they live, and they live and they live."
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> "Sometimes, and sometimes not. So do the gods."
>
> "You were about the last Accelerationist left in the world, Sam. No one would have thought you were also the deadliest."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/roger-zelazny/lord-of-light/i-decided-that.md)