Had there not been these safety valves of political parties and elections, we may very well have had no way to change except forceful overthrow of government.


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TERRY PRATCHETT
Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, becaus...
TERRY PRATCHETT
She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite th...
TERRY PRATCHETT
The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.
TERRY PRATCHETT
The Haavara agreement allowed the escape of well-to-do German Jews in exchange for the liquidation o...
TERRY GLAVIN
I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.&...
TERRY WOGAN
The BBC is the greatest broadcaster in the world. It's the standard that everyone measures thems...
TERRY WOGAN
Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.
TERRY GOODKIND
I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head ful...
TERRY PRACHETT
I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisian...
TERRY BRADSHAW
People can make any political calculation they want. I make decisions what I think is in the best in...
TERRY MCAULIFFE
John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friend...
TERRY GILLIAM
The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios,...
TERRY ZWIGOFF
My hat's off to documentary filmmakers. I don't know if I'm ever going back to it. You&#...
TERRY ZWIGOFF
Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought ...
TERRY EAGLETON
The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executi...
TERRY TEACHOUT
I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to st...
TERRY GILLIAM
Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing...
TERRY EAGLETON
I am, as it happens, a baby boomer, but not one who feels any broad-gauge nostalgia for the '60s...
TERRY TEACHOUT
Argentina has elected a centre-right president, Mauricio Macri. Bolivia's Evo Morales, having lo...
TERRY GLAVIN
It was commonplace to hear it said, after the Bosnian genocide kicked off in 1992 and the Rwandan ge...
TERRY GLAVIN
It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are t...
TERRY PRATCHETT
I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse.
"Right you are, sir!" said the serge...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.
TERRY GROSS
This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.
TERRY PRATCHETT
I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brand...
TERRY PRATCHETT
The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no la...
TERRY PRATCHETT
They stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was n...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.
TERRY MCMILLAN
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary wh...
HELEN TERRY
William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."
Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling togeth...
TERRY PRATCHETT
The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identif...
TERRY PRATCHETT
I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" TERRY PRATCHETT If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's wha...
TERRY PRATCHETT
The place where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the s...
TERRY PRATCHETT
If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still g...
TERRY PRATCHETT
If you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and tryi...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.
PAUL TERRY
Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?
TERRY PRATCHETT