Interesting Times (Discworld, #17; Rincewind, #5)

by Terry Pratchett

chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

Rincewind had always been on the bottom of the social heap. It didn’t matter what size heap it was. The top got higher or lower, but the bottom was always in the same place.

“Luck is my middle name,” said Rincewind, indistinctly. “Mind you, my first name is Bad.”

an ass may do the work of an ox in a time of no horses.

They didn’t steal from poor people; this was not because there was anything virtuous about poor people, it was simply because poor people had no money.

When people who can read and write start fighting on behalf of people who can’t, you just end up with another kind of stupidity.

Freedom just means being told what to do by someone different.

you might not yet be civilized but at least you’re nice and clean, and many people think this is identical.