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“Money is behind every war, religion is but an excuse, or perhaps a justification”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“You see, it has been my experience that no matter where you go, you will find some who abuse their power.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“when men perceive the world as being right, we are content. But if we see a hole -a deficiency - we scramble to fill it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“...like eels in a bucket, slithering over one another and trying to bite each other's tails”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Laissez la vie vous porter. Quelqu'un de bien m'a dit un jour qu'il fallait du temps pour savoir dire les choses simplement.”
― Gilles Legardinier, Complètement cramé!

“En général, la lâcheté est livrée avec la bêtise.”
― Gilles Legardinier, Complètement cramé!

“Détrompez vous. Je ne suis qu'un homme. Ce n'est pas la maîtrise de moi-même qui m'a évité les écarts, mais la peur de blesser. Pour moi la notion de faute est purement subjective. Seules comptent les raisons pour lesquelles on en commet. Le bien et le mal sont des notions sans valeur. "pour qui" ou "contre qui" définit bien mieux ce que nous sommes.”
― Gilles Legardinier, Complètement cramé!

“Depuis, il redoutait que la vie ne lui retire les choses auxquelles il tenait. Pire, il en avait gardé la peur de la voir lui prendre les gens qu'il aimait. Il en avait conçu une philosophie intime : tout apprécier à chaque seconde, parce que tout peut s'effondrer à chaque seconde”
― Gilles Legardinier, Complètement cramé!

“I'm a firm believer in letting them wonder if you're an idiot, rather than speaking too quickly and removing all doubt.”
― John Conroe, God Touched

“There's more to people than some defined label.said Arcie. There are more than straight good and evil,aye, even more than law or disorders or fence-sittin'.
There's prejudice, whimsey, affection, superstition, habit, upbringing, alliance, pride, society, morals, animosity, preference, values, religion, circumstance, humor, perversity, honor, vengeance, jealousy, frustration...hundreds o' factors, from the past and in every present moment, as decides what some one person 'll do in an individious situation.”
― Eve Forward Villains By Necessity

“There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thud!

“Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thud!

“Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?”
― Terry Pratchett, Thud!

“He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the king lounged about doing nothing. If only the pawns would've united ... the whole board could've been a republic in about a dozen moves.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thud!

“Night, forever. But within it, a city, shadowy and only real in certain ways.
The entity cowered in its alley, where the mist was rising. This could not have happened!
Yet it had. The streets had filled with… things. Animals! Birds! Changing shape! Screaming and yelling! And, above it all, higher than the rooftops, a lamb rocking back and forth in great slow motions, thundering over the cobbles…
And then bars had come down, slamming down, and the entity had been thrown back.
But it had been so close! It had saved the creature, it was getting through, it was beginning to have control… and now this…
In the darkness of the inner city, above the rustle of the never-ending rain, it heard the sound of boots approaching.
A shape appeared in the mist.
It drew nearer.
Water cascaded off a metal helmet and an oiled leather cloak as the figure stopped and, entirely unconcerned, cupped its had in front of its face and lit a cigar.
Then the match was dropped on the cobbles, where it hissed out, and the figure said: “What are you?”
The entity stirred, like an old fish in a deep pool. It was too tired to flee.
“I am the Summoning Dark.” It was not, in fact, a sound, but had it been, it would have been a hiss. “Who are you?”
“I am the Watchman.”
“They would have killed his family!” The darkness lunged, and met resistance. “Think of the deaths they have caused! Who are you to stop me?”
“He created me. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who watches the watchmen? Me. I watch him. Always. You will not force him to murder for you.”
“What kind of human creates his own policeman?”
“One who fears the dark.”
“And so he should,” said the entity, with satisfaction.
“Indeed. But I think you misunderstand. I am not here to keep the darkness out. I am here to keep it in.” There was a clink of metal as the shadowy watchman lifted a dark lantern and opened its little door. Orange light cut through the blackness. “Call me… the Guarding Dark. Imagine how strong I must be.”
The Summoning Dark backed desperately into the alley, but the light followed it, burning it.
“And now,” said the watchman, “get out of town.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thud!

“And, since the IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters, it was never very clear to anyone what had happened”
― Terry Pratchett, Maskerade

“His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.”
― Terry Pratchett, Maskerade

“People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.”
― Terry Pratchett, Maskerade

“shoot the dictator and prevent the war ? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge;shoot one, and ther'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years', thirty years', ten years' time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“a bad hunter chases, a good hunter waits”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“As has been pointed out earlier in the Diskworld chronicles, entire agricultural economies have been based on the lifting power of little old ladies in black dresses”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“you can't say "if this didn't happen then that would have happened" because you don't know everything that might have happened.You might think something'd be good, but for all you know, it could have turned out horrible. You can't say "If only I'd ..." because you could be wishing for anything. The point is, you'll never know. You've gone past. So there's no use thinking about it. So I don't”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“Personal's not the same as important. People just think it is”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“wasps looked pretty enough. But if you were for bees, you had to be against wasps”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“sooner or later the graveyards are full of everybody”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

“The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

“The reward for toil had been more toil. If you dug the best ditches, they gave you a bigger shovel.”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum