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“I’d be very worried if I saw a man singing the national anthem and waving the flag, sir. It’s really a thing foreigners do.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

“I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“Sometimes Carrot sounded like a civics essay written by a stunned choirboy.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

“At times there can be a very thin line between right and wrong. If you are emotionally involved the line is almost impossible to see.”
― Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat

“The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“Not all questions are answered, commander, but fortunately some answers are questioned.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“I found that I couldn't muster any belief in a literal heaven or hell, anyway. I thought the best we could all do was to look after one another and clean up the various hells we've made right here on earth.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

“You’re an officer of the law, not a soldier of the government.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

“If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“Men come and go, but dust accumulates.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

“His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

“You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?”
― Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

“Beware:
At war
Or at peace,
More people die
Of unenlightened self-interest
Than of any other disease.”
― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

“For the enemy is not Troll, nor it is Dwarf, but it is the baleful, the malign, the cowardly, the vessels of hatred, those who do a bad thing and call it good.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thud!

“You think so? A wise ruler thinks twice before directing violence against someone because he does not approve of what they say.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thud!

“Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

“Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Where there are policemen there’s crime, sergeant, remember that.”
― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

“It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thud!

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Look at it like this, it's not that we're making life, we're simply giving life a place to live.”
― Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

“When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“I realize I don't know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“The big trouble,” he added, “is that everyone wants someone else to read their minds for them and then make the world work properly.”
― Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

“Sometimes I dream that we could deal with the big crimes, that we could make a law for countries and not just for people,”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings