I found a bunch of quotes by an author named Terry Pratchett. He is a satirist who writes fiction. And I think I agree with him on a lot of things:
"It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things."
"I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it."
"It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored"
"Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for."
“The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.”
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."
oh the joy I find in some good cynical sarcasm
Terry Pratchett is funny. I read one of his discworld books when I was in junior high. I just don't remember which one.
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