‘... I know many people of power, people who have so much power that they don’t have to use it.’ (SC)
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‘... I dearly wished I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.’ (ISWM)
... Vimes found it better to look at Authority for orders and then filter those orders through a fine mesh of common sense, adding a generous scoop of creative misunderstanding and maybe even incipient deafness if circumstances demanded, because Authority rarely descended to street level. (NW)
'... sometimes when the high and mighty make big plans they don't always think about the fine detail...' (TOT)
... to the kind of men who seek power, gratitude has very poor keeping qualities. (TT)
William's class understood that justice was like coal or potatoes. You ordered it when you needed it. (TT)
'Money doesn't need to talk, it merely has to listen.' (FE)
'... if you go around telling people they are downtrodden, you tend to make two separate enemies: the people who are doing the downtreading and have no intention of stopping, and the people who are downtrodden...' (Do)
The Patrician was not, on his own admission, a lover of technical things that spun and, indeed hummed. Nor of unidentifiable squiggles. He saw them as things with which you couldn't negotiate, or argue; you couldn't hang them either, or even creatively torture them. (JD)
'When people are faced with lots of troubles and they don't know what to do, there's always someone ready to say anything, just to get some power,' said Grimma. (Dig)
... there is something hugely unlovable about sheep, a kind of mad, eye-rolling brainlessness smelling of damp wool and panic. Many religions extol the virtues of the meek, but Rincewind had never trusted them. The meek could turn very nasty at times. (LC)
Ridcully felt there was indeed room at the top, and he was occupying all of it. (LC)
That was their law. The strongest man led. That made sense. At least, it made sense to strong men. (N)
'There are different ways to eat people ...' (N)
They were men who felt that The Time Had Come. Regimes can survive barbarian hordes, crazed terrorists and hooded secret societies, but they're in real trouble when prosperous and anonymous men sit around a big table and think thoughts like that. (FC)
He was one of those people who would recoil from an assault on strength, but attack weakness without mercy. (MA)
Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent-protection. (SG)
Vorbis liked to see properly guilty consciences. That was what consciences were for. Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned. (SG)
… it wasn’t the wearing of the hats that counted so much as having one to wear. Every trade, every craft had its hat. That’s why kings had hats. Take the crown off a king and all you had was someone good at having a weak chin and waving to people. Hats had power. Hats were important. (WA)
Fairy godmothers develop a very deep understanding about human nature, which makes the good ones kind and the bad ones powerful. (WA)
Keeping secrets made you powerful. Being powerful earned you respect. Respect was hard currency. (SLF)
He had not got where he was today by bothering how things worked. It was how people worked that intrigued him. (MP)
‘It’s got him,’ said Gaspode quietly. ‘Got him worse than anyone, I reckon.’
‘What has? How can you tell?’ Victor hissed. ‘Partly a’cos of subtle signs what you don’t seem to be abler recognise,’ said Gaspode, ‘and partly because he’s actin’ like a complete twerp, really.’ (MP) “We’re witches, Tiffany. We has the power for a reason. We just ‘as to make sure as it’s the right reason …” (SC)
‘… the thing with crowns is, it isn’t the putting them on that’s the problem, it’s the taking them off.’ (WS)
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