"What better work for one who loves freedom than the job of watchman. Law is the servant of freedom. Freedom without limits is just a word."

'Atheism is also a religious position,' Dorfl rumbled.
'No it's not!' Said constable Visit.
'Atheism is a denial of a god.' 'Therefore it is a religious position,' said Dorfl. 'Indeed, a true atheist thinks of the gods constantly, albeit in terms of denial. Therefore, atheism is a form of belief. If the atheist truly did not believe, he or she would not bother to deny.'
'Did you read those pamphlets i gave you?' Said Visit suspiciously.
'Yes. Many of them did not make sense. But i should like to read some more...There is much in them that i would like to discuss. If you know some priests, I would enjoy disputation.'

"The Ankh-Morpork view of crime and punishment was that the penalty for the first offence should prevent the possibility of a second offence."

"Only crimes could take place in darkness. Punishment had to be done in the light"

"People kept on talking about the true king of Ankh-Morpork, but history taught a cruel lesson. It said - often in words of blood - that the true king was the one who got crowned."

"Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate . . ."

"People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly
fashionable chaos and complexity."