Was a wonderful book. I thought I will share some quotes from the book.

'He knew from experience that true and obvious ideas, such as the ineffable wisdom and judgment of the Great God Om, seemed so obscure to many people that you actually had to kill them before they saw the error of their ways...'

'Winners never talk about glorious victories. That’s because they’re the ones who see what the battlefield looks like afterward. It’s only the losers who have glorious victories.'

'And, as is generally the case around the time a prophet is expected, the Church redoubled its efforts to be holy. This was very much like the bustle you get in any large concern when the auditors are expected, but tended towards taking people suspected of being less holy and putting them to death in a hundred ingenious ways. This is considered a reliable barometer of the state of one’s piety in most of the really popular religions.'

'Anything was possible last night. That was the trouble with last nights. They were always followed by this mornings.'


'We died for lies, for centuries we died for lies.’  He waved a hand towards the god.  ‘Now we’ve got a truth to die for!’

‘No.  Men should die for lies.  But the truth is too precious to die for.'