‘Never trust any ruler who puts his faith in tunnels and bunkers and escape routes. The chances are that his heart isn’t in the job.’

— Lord Havelock Vetinari ‘Guards! Guards!’ By Terry Pratchett (via theciaonafreelancebasis)

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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.

— Terry Pratchett, summing up the whole false dichotomy of “us vs. them” (via taking-up-the-pen)

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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not after you.

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Terry Pratchett

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This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

— Terry Pratchett (via quotesandyouknowstuff)

I have told this to few people, gentlemen, and I suspect I never will again, but one day when I was a young boy on holiday in Uberwald I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs. A very endearing sight, I’m sure you’ll agree, and even as I watched, the mother otter dived into the water and came up with a plump salmon, which she subdued and dragged onto a half-submurged log. As she ate it, while of course it was still alive, the body split and I remember to this day the sweet pinkness of its roes as they spilled out, much to the delight of the baby otters who scrambled over themselves to feed on the delicacy. One of nature’s wonders, gentlemen: mother and children dining upon mother and children. And that’s when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.

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Havelock Vetinari, Unseen Academicals

Terry Pratchett

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No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away…

— Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man (via -bookworm)

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Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

— Terry Pratchett (via unitologist)