James G. Frazer Quotes About Sacrifice

Quotes about: Sacrifice

• Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.

  James G. Frazer

  Sacrifice, Men, Useless

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

• With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.

  James G. Frazer

  Religious, Art, Prayer

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

• For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.

  James G. Frazer

  Sacrifice, Criminals, Doe

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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