# Quote — Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light

> "The gods are strong — stronger than they have ever been before."
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> "But tell me who is coming to aid us."
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> "Lord Nirriti the Black, who hates all things, hates the Gods of the City most of all. So he is sending a thousand unliving ones to fight on the plains beside the Vedra. He said that, after the battle, we of the Rakasha may take our choice from the bodies which yet remain among the mindless ones he has grown."
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> "I do not relish aid from the Black One, but I am in no position to discriminate..."

- 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: 234
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lord_of_Light#SIX) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/roger-zelazny/lord-of-light/the-gods-are

## 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."
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> "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)