It’s only your country when they want you to get killed!
Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment, Seite 70
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That’s a rater difficult question […]. You see, their word for “freedom” is the same as their word for “fighting”.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo, Seite 248, 1997
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, 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, Jingo, Seite 177, 1997
It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad an cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn’t then you might have to face the fact, that bad things happen because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo, Seite 177, 1997
Whoever had created humanity had left in a major designflaw. It was it’s tendency to bend at knees.
Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay, Seite 72, 1996
All things that are, are ours. But we must care. For if we do not care, we do not exist. If we do not exist, then there is nothing but blind oblivion.
Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man, Seite 273, 2013
There is no hope but us.
There is no mercy but us.
There is no justice. There is just us.
Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man, Seite 273, 2013
History unravels gently like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda […]. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it.
Terry Pratchett, Mort, Seite 150, 1987