...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.
Terry PratchettSister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea.
Terry PratchettPeople needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.
Terry PratchettDown 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