

“There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment about the nature of sin, for example,鈥 said Oats.
鈥淎nd what do they think? Against it, are they?鈥 said Granny Weatherwax.
鈥淚t鈥檚 not as simple as that. It鈥檚 not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray.鈥
鈥淣辞辫别.鈥
鈥淧补谤诲辞苍?鈥
鈥淭here鈥檚 no grays, only white that鈥檚 got grubby. I鈥檓 surprised you don鈥檛 know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That鈥檚 what sin is.鈥
鈥淚t鈥檚 a lot more complicated than that鈥斺
鈥淣o. It ain鈥檛. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they鈥檙e getting worried that they won鈥檛 like the truth. People as things, that鈥檚 where it starts.鈥
鈥淥h, I鈥檓 sure there are worse crimes鈥斺
鈥淏ut they starts with thinking about people as things鈥”
― Carpe Jugulum
鈥淎nd what do they think? Against it, are they?鈥 said Granny Weatherwax.
鈥淚t鈥檚 not as simple as that. It鈥檚 not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray.鈥
鈥淣辞辫别.鈥
鈥淧补谤诲辞苍?鈥
鈥淭here鈥檚 no grays, only white that鈥檚 got grubby. I鈥檓 surprised you don鈥檛 know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That鈥檚 what sin is.鈥
鈥淚t鈥檚 a lot more complicated than that鈥斺
鈥淣o. It ain鈥檛. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they鈥檙e getting worried that they won鈥檛 like the truth. People as things, that鈥檚 where it starts.鈥
鈥淥h, I鈥檓 sure there are worse crimes鈥斺
鈥淏ut they starts with thinking about people as things鈥”
― Carpe Jugulum

“The Sam Vimes "Boots" Theory of Economic Injustice runs thus:
At the time of Men at Arms, Samuel Vimes earned thirty-eight dollars a month as a Captain of the Watch, plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots, the sort that would last years and years, cost fifty dollars. This was beyond his pocket and the most he could hope for was an affordable pair of boots costing ten dollars, which might with luck last a year or so before he would need to resort to makeshift cardboard insoles so as to prolong the moment of shelling out another ten dollars.
Therefore over a period of ten years, he might have paid out a hundred dollars on boots, twice as much as the man who could afford fifty dollars up front ten years before. And he would still have wet feet.
Without any special rancour, Vimes stretched this theory to explain why Sybil Ramkin lived twice as comfortably as he did by spending about half as much every month.”
― Night Watch
At the time of Men at Arms, Samuel Vimes earned thirty-eight dollars a month as a Captain of the Watch, plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots, the sort that would last years and years, cost fifty dollars. This was beyond his pocket and the most he could hope for was an affordable pair of boots costing ten dollars, which might with luck last a year or so before he would need to resort to makeshift cardboard insoles so as to prolong the moment of shelling out another ten dollars.
Therefore over a period of ten years, he might have paid out a hundred dollars on boots, twice as much as the man who could afford fifty dollars up front ten years before. And he would still have wet feet.
Without any special rancour, Vimes stretched this theory to explain why Sybil Ramkin lived twice as comfortably as he did by spending about half as much every month.”
― Night Watch

“It鈥檚 not lying when you do it to officers! It鈥檚 presentin鈥 them with the world the way they think it ought to be!”
― Monstrous Regiment
― Monstrous Regiment

“That was another thing you learned in the milit鈥檙y: look busy. Look busy and no one worried too much about what you were busy at.”
― Monstrous Regiment
― Monstrous Regiment

“you are not the only one watching the world, other people are also people, while you watch them they watch you, and they think about you while you think about them. The world isn鈥檛 just about you.”
― Monstrous Regiment
― Monstrous Regiment
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