This quote from Terry Pratchett is so head on, it still hurts reading it again decades later. The thing that I really loved Terry for was ability to observe things and capture them in words. He could see how humans really were and still love humanity. I miss him.
‘Down there,’ he said, ‘are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any iniquity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no.’
(Guards Guards)
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