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.

The top got higher or lower, but the bottom was always in the same place.

Women had always been to him strange and distant and wonderful creatures rather than, as the Horde to a man believed, something to do.

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