Terry Pratchett Quotes about Evil

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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death,

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

Terry Pratchett

Prayer, Fate, Evil

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.

Terry Pratchett

Dragons, People, Evil

"Guards! Guards!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be "do as you would be done by." It has one or 2 flaws, but it is a good soundbite. Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.

Terry Pratchett

Book, People, Evil

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Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should.

Terry Pratchett

Sleep, Evil, Doe

Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.37, Harper Collins

And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.

Terry Pratchett

Nature, Pain, Evil

Terry Pratchett (2009). “Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)”, p.312, Random House

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

Terry Pratchett

People, Evil, Tragedy

Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.30, Harper Collins

They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.

Terry Pratchett

Evil, Grace, Ugly

"Terry Pratchett's books are the opposite of 'ordinary potboilers'" by Sam Jordison, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2015.

The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.

Terry Pratchett

Friday, Home, Evil

Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.294, Random House

If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power... they will talk, they will gloat. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

Terry Pratchett

Men, Arrows, Evil

Terry Pratchett Quotes about Evil

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