Terry Pratchett Quotes

In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.

Limits are very important.

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

There ought to be limits to freedom.

A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

It's nice to have boundaries, because as long as we have them, we can cross them a bit, and that's what perks interest. If you have full freedom, what do you do?

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.

There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.

Disorder is the child of authority and compulsion. Liberty is the mother of order.

Liberty's chief foe is theology.

It's very difficult to have just a little bit of censorship.

Part of understanding power is understanding the limits of power.

The danger of unbounded liberty [of printing], and the danger of bounding it, have produced a problem in the science of Government, which human understanding seems hitherto unable to solve.

Rules should not be barriers; they should be guides.

The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ... Indeed, the future agenda of the federal government has already been established to outlaw alcohol and tobacco in the near future. ... If current trends persist, America will be moving toward stricter prohibitions, greater restrictions, and more centralized control over consumption. This represents an erosion of liberty at its most fundamental level.

Nobody must keep a commitment to do impossible things.

There were a lot of stop signs in my life... People telling you what to do, when to do it, and so on.

Nothing should be banned. I think it is just not good.

There is a distinction between total control and enjoying total freedom.

None of us believes in an untrammelled right to free speech. We all agree there are always going to be lines that, for the purposes of law and order, cannot be crossed; or for the purposes of taste and decency, should not be crossed. We differ only on where those lines should be drawn.

I'm not for censorship without reason.