'... as witches we believe in religious tolerance...'
'That's right,' said Nanny Ogg. 'But only for the right religions ....' (CJ)
'That's right,' said Nanny Ogg. 'But only for the right religions ....' (CJ)
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'Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk ...' (FC)
'Throwing women over your pommel and riding off into the night isn't approved of around here. It's probably an ism,' he added gloomily. (BOS)
Colon was a sizeist, at least when it came to people smaller than himself. (GG)
Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it … (LF)
… centres of learning are almost always referred to as feminine; rather surprising considering the length of time it took for any women to get into one of them for a purpose higher than scrubbing the floors. (JD)
'... we are not little folk. We are big on the inside.' (RS)
‘There is no race so wretched that there is not something out there that cares for them …’ (Sn)
'There should be no slaves, even slaves to instinct.' (UA)
'Young lady drink levels all mankind. It is the ultimate democrat, if you like that sort of thing. A drunk beggar is as drunk as a lord, and so is a lord. And have you ever noticed that all drunks can understand one another, no matter how drunk they are and how different their native tongues?' (UA)
'It's hard to hate people who are a long way away. You forget how dreadful they are. But you see a neighbour's warts every day'. (UA)
This is pure democracy. People don't just get a vote, they get a say … (N)
She thought that being foreign was a crime, or at least some sort of illness that you could catch by being out out in the sun too much, or eating olives. (N)
It's a terrible thing to be nearly sixteen and the wrong species. (GG)
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socio-economic unfairness. (MA) Ankh-Morpork has always had a fine tradition of welcoming people of all races, colours and shapes, if they have money to spend and a return ticket. (RM)
She'd never, ever asked for anything in return. And the trouble with not asking for anything in return was that sometimes you didn’t get it. (CJ)
'And is he a fair and just ruler?’
Carding thought about it. The Patrician’s spy network was said to be superb. ‘I would say,’ he said carefully, ‘that he is unfair and unjust, but scrupulously even-handed. He is unfair and unjust to everyone, without fear or favour’. (S) They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or the True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then one day the tribe meets some other people, and gives them a name like The Other People or, if it's not been a good day, The Enemy. If only they'd thing up a name like Some More True Human Beings, it'd save a lot of trouble later on. (CP)
You could say it was unfair, and that was true, but the universe didn’t care because it didn’t know what ‘fair’ meant. (W)
'... I think that once you’ve shown solidarity, you should be allowed just a little extra.' (AM)
IT IS ... UNFAIR.
‘That’s life, master.’ BUT I’M NOT. ‘I meant this is how it’s supposed to go, master,’ said Albert. NO. YOU MEAN THIS IS HOW IT GOES. (H) 'You’re being reasonable again!’ snapped Angua. ‘You’re deliberately seeing everyone’s point of view! Can’t you try to be unfair even once?' (FC)
... Miss Butts sincerely believed that there were no basic differences between boys and gels.
At least, none worth talking about. (SM) The Archchancellor was not the kind of man who takes a special pleasure in being brusque and rude to women.
Or, to put it another way, he was brusque and rude to absolutely everyone, regardless of sex, which was an equality of a sort. (RM) |
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