David

“Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“Mistress Weatherwax is the head witch, then, is she?’
'Oh no!’ said Miss Level, looking shocked. 'Witches are all equal. We don’t have things like head witches. That’s quite against the spirit of witchcraft.’
'Oh, I see,’ said Tiffany.
'Besides,’ Miss Level added, 'Mistress Weatherwax would never allow that sort of thing.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

“In the broadest sense, it was used morally to denote a contrast between “superior moral and intellectual” urban societies that conformed to Eurocentric ideals, and more “barbaric” ones that did not have a hierarchy system, agriculture, literature, art and science, or a division of labour.”
― Raven Todd DaSilva, The Other Ancient Civilizations: Decoding Archaeology's Less Celebrated Cultures