Civilizations Quotes

“Lo único cierto, en cambio, era que nada volvería a ser igual. El eje del mundo estaba a punto de dislocarse”
― Laurent Binet, Civilizaciones

“Paul again: ‘Faith comes by hearing.’ But faith in the Sun is not taught. All one must do is look up.”
― Laurent Binet, Civilizations

“While the massacres continued, Atahualpa searched out the members of the Suprema. He asked them why they had planned to destroy him and his people, and they screeched and squawked while pointing to an effigy of their nailed god that hung on the wall. Some fell to their knees, as if struck down, and their bodies convulsed. He wanted to explain to them that any god who demands that men be burned alive, whatever they might have done, was a bad god, because the bodies of the dead must be preserved in order that they might continue living after death, and that any such god did not deserve to be worshipped. But as Higuénamota wasn’t with him at that moment to translate, he decided it was simpler just to execute them.”
― Laurent Binet, Civilizations

“¿Por qué es tan importante para los partidarios del dios clavado que su dios sea reconocido por encima de todos los otros dioses? Es un misterio que no nos explicamos”
― Laurent Binet, Civilizations

“Él quiso explicarles que un dios que exigía que se quemara vivos a los hombres, cualquiera que fuese el crimen que hubieran cometido, era un dios malvado, pues el cuerpo de los muertos debía permanecer íntegro para que pudieran continuar viviendo después de la muerte, y que un dios así no merecía ser adorado”
― Laurent Binet, Civilizations

“Cipango”
― Laurent Binet, Civilizations

“La sabiduría de un pagano, si está guiada por Dios, incluso a sus espaldas, puede hacer más por la humanidad que un cristiano sediento de sangre.”
― Laurent Binet, Civilizaciones