Terry Pratchett Quotes

The one without a sword gets humiliated.

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.

Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.

Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you're in bad shape.

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

Remember, the enemy's gate is down.

Satan never wastes a fiery dart by aiming at a spot covered by armor. The bull's eye is located dead center in our inconsistency. That's where the enemy plans to bring us down.

Where is peace to be found? The answer is surprising but clear. In weakness. Why there? Because in our weakness, our familiar ways of controlling and manipulating our world are being stripped away, and we are forced to let go from doing much, thinking much, and relying on our self-sufficiency. Right there where we are most vulnerable, the peace that is not of this world is mysteriously hidden.

Time and place often give advantage to the weak over the strong.

A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct.

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe.

Violence is the weapon of the weak.

His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.

Tranq'd by your own gun,"Lev says."How pathetic.

From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.

I don't think anybody chooses to be an underdog.

Slavery is a condition imposed upon individuals or races not sufficiently able to protect or defend themselves, and so long as a race or people expose themselves to the danger of being weak, no one can tell when they will be reduced to slavery.

Who knows more about male weakness: you or me? Use my knowledge, Sage.

Happiness is an enemy. It weakens you. Suddenly, you have something to lose.

If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.

When they know what makes you cry, they know what hurts you most. Don't give your enemies that.

Everything here is so weak, little girl. Everything breaks so easily. They want such simple things.