And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.
Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum.
“Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didnt do good for people, she did right by them.”
“When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.”
“You say that you people dont burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but thats what true faith would mean, ysee? Sacrificin your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin the truth of it,...”
“We were born vampires.""I thought you became "" vampires by being bitten? Dear me, no. Oh, we can turn people into vampires, its an easy technique, but what would be the point? When you eat now wha...”
“Its most unfair. Once people find out youre a vampire they act as if youre some kind of monster.”
“He grinned. It was the sort of grin that Agnes supposed was called infectious but, then, so was measles.”
“The supreme principle of socialism is that man takes precedence over things, life over property, and hence, work over capital; that power follows creation, and not possession; that man must not be ...”
“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
“Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.”
“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”
“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”
“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”
“The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.”
“I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.”
“Told often enough that they are the source of sin, women may well begin feeling guilty as they accept the necessity for penance. Taught effectively enough that they are irrelevant to the important ...”