Terry Pratchett Quotes

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.

God help that country by informers led Where fear corrupts and where suspicions spread By looks and gestures, even to the dead.

... community is already in process of disillusion where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy.

The vertue of a coward is suspition.

I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.

And I've always been paranoid. I can remember as a baby my mother would spin the mobile above my head and thinking..."yeah, that's coming down."

I think I've always been paranoid.

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

Paranoia, the destroyer.

For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.

Suspicion cleaves to the dark side of things.

It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.

Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.

How do you fight an invisible opponent like suspicion?

The air seemed poisoned with fear and hatred. People eyed on another suspiciously, and the streets smelled of a silence that knotted your stomach.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

I don't want to promote paranoia. It's not like wow, everybody is after me. You know that's not going to be very powerful. A person like Stalin was like that and he was powerful, but it ended up completely destroying him because he couldn't trust anyone.

Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.

Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes.

I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.

Survival...is an infinite capacity for suspicion.

If you're paranoid long enough, sooner or later you're gonna be right.

We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets.

Suspicion is very often a useless pain.