Terry Pratchett Quotes

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

It is a wrong form of government we are living under, and we, the workers stand for the overthrow of the whole damnable institution.

All great revolutions are led by aristocrats.

One class did not overthrow another; the poor did not supplant the rich. But social relationships—the way people were connected one to another—were changed and decisively so.

In the beginning, all men were alike and they lived in peace and they shared among them what they had. But now there are two kinds of men, the master and the slave. But there are more of us than there are of you, many more. And we are stronger than you, better than you. All that is good in mankind belongs to us.

Should the old system remain, then I swear before God to you that within a few years we shall see a Stadholder back again for I know of no other counter-weight to the formidable spirit of Aristocracy …

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

The powerful don't make revolutions

… an army of Gatsbys wanting not to overturn the social order but only to belong to the upper crust.

Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence.

It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power — power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.

A revolution is generally only evolution--an explosive sequence of events crowded into a short space of time, but leaving more of the ancient regime untouched than usually is at first apparent.

The passing of state power from one class to another is the first, the principal, the basic sign of a revolution, both in the strictly scientific and in the practical political meaning of that term.

The first liberating revolutions never destroyed the large landholding powers that always constituted a reactionary force and upheld the principle of servitude on the land.

I think that in the eyes of the nation we both can and will oppose the whole aristocratic party and when the time comes, we shall do it openly … and eventually bring the whole affair into the open.

Revolution by the have-nots has a way of inducing a moral revelation among the haves.

Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across.

'The Prince' was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. 'Rules for Radicals' is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

I am not a politician. I am just a simple person who has come to break down this system.

Football is simple but very complicated.

Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)

To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.

In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them.