Reasons why I love Terry Pratchett: “Build a man a fire, and hell be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and hell be warm for the rest of his life.” “The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp” “It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country, he read. This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.” “The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.” “No enemies had ever taken Ankh-Morpock. Well technically they had, quite often; the city welcomed free-spending barbarian invaders, but somehow the puzzled raiders found, after a few days, that they didnt own their horses any more, and within a couple of months they were just another minority group with its own graffiti and food shops.” “It was much better to imagine men in some smokey room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didnt then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told the children bed time stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. 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 anyones fault. If it was Us, then what did that make Me? After all, Im one of Us. I must be. Ive certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. Were always one of Us. Its Them that do the bad things.”
Posted on: Fri, 02 May 2014 13:33:45 +0000
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