The Cara of Rassilon

01:02 11th May 2013

Notes: 273

Tags: discworld granny weatherwax quotes to live by

“It’s not as simple as that. It’s not a black-and-white issue. There are so many shades of gray.”

“There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”

“It’s a lot more complicated than that-“

“No. It ain’t. When people say things are more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”

“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes-“

“But they starts with thinking about people as things…”

— Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (1998)

(Source: fuckyeahterrypratchett)

18:42 7th May 2013

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Reblogged from cosmic-llin

Tags: quotes to live by

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

— T.S. Eliot (via c-ovet)

(Source: dormio)

23:28 28th Mar 2013

Notes: 5694

Reblogged from radfemburlesque

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This planet doesn’t need more ‘successful’ people but is in desperate need of more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of every shape and form. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these needs have very little to do with success - the way our culture has defined it.

— David Orr (via neuromanticism)

(Source: pranaym)

21:25 31st Jan 2013

Notes: 18

Reblogged from megalomanial

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It’s not my fault I don’t listen when you talk.

— Veronica, Better Off Ted (via megalomanial)

19:35 6th Nov 2012

Notes: 175

Reblogged from fuckyeahdiscworld

Tags: Terry Pratchett awesome quotes to live by

And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn’t that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.
As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn’t measure up.

— Terry Pratchett, Night Watch (via 9spooky11me)

(Source: shoehornwithteeth)

22:31 4th Nov 2012

Notes: 22

Reblogged from kateviardo

Tags: Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan quotes to live by

I’ve always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

— Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honour

11:58 19th Feb 2012

Notes: 232

Reblogged from fuckyeahterrypratchett

Tags: Terry Pratchett susan Susan Sto Helit Death quotes to live by

Terry Pratchett Quote

Susan: All right, I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable.
Death: REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
Susan: Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—
Death: YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
Susan: So we can believe the big ones?
Death: YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
Susan: They're not the same at all!
Death: YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET... AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME... SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
Susan: Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—
Death: MY POINT EXACTLY.