Terry Pratchett Quotes

Anything can be justified by security.

Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.

I wanted to choose somewhere public, because I was scared of the KGB.

I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.

For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.

If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

I hear that from so many different governments, people coming to me and saying, 'You should be careful'. But I don't want to go around with bodyguards.

Everything I say and do, I assume that I am being spied on.

The way to feel safe is never to feel secure.

There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.

It's really hard not to be paranoid when you find out that you've been spied on.

I feel like I'm being watched. Always. Like, I want to tan topless somewhere, and I know I probably could never do that. Even if I'm upstairs in my bedroom, and the curtains are pulled, I feel like a paparazzo's outside on a boat somewhere, or somebody's peeping.

We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next door neighbors should hear that freeborn citizens dare not speak in the open.

In the '80s, you couldn't walk in the neighborhood without looking back to see if anyone was following you. You had your key in your hand before you got to your apartment and you'd rush in so you didn't have to stop.

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.

A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

I’ll be back tomorrow,” he said, “at nine o’clock. Don’t open your door to anyone else.” “Not even my balcony door?” “Especially not your balcony door.

The next night, Lincoln parked his Corolla right next to The Courier's front door. I'm here, he thought. Find me. Follow me. Make this inevitable.

They [the authorities] will act aggressively against anyone who has known me. That keeps me up at night.

District 12. Where you can starve to death in safety," I mutter. Then I glance quickly over my shoulder. Even here, in the middle of nowhere, you worry someone might overhear you.

Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.

The walls of the arch are covered with blood-red jellies that wink and glisten at me by the light of the moon. My father told me they were completely harmless. I don't believe him. Nothing is completely harmless.

It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.

The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.