Small Gods Quotes

Just because you can explain it doesn’t mean it’s not still a miracle.

It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air.

I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts.[said Brutha.]That way, everyone’s happy.

His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools – the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans – and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, ‘You can’t trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so let’s have a drink.’

He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

Gods never need to be very bright when there are humans around to be it for them.

Gods don’t like people not doing much work. People who aren’t busy all the time might start to think.

Fear is strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

Bishops move diagonally. That’s why they often turn up where the kings don’t expect them to be.

Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.