"Small Gods" Quotes

Do you believe in the gods? I mean, really believe? Believe in the kind of way that makes you do something about it?

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

There's no greys, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That's what sin is.

The thing about gods is that they have a tendency to look like the people who worship them.

There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal, kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage.

He always held that you can't blame someone for what they think, only for what they do.

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

People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, 'Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.'