Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’, believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’.

Terry Pratchett (via beornwulf)

kingdomheartsddd: This MLK Jr quote is still relevant. “I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner,…

If someone comes to you and asks your help, you shall not turn him off with pious words, saying, “Have faith and take your troubles to God!” You shall act as if there were no God, as if there were only one person in all the world who could help this man–only yourself.

—Rabbi Moshe Leib of Sassov (via shiraglassman)

You don’t expect to hear a rabbi say “act as if there were no God” and mean not “do whatever you feel like doing” but “recognize that the ultimate responsibility for doing good in the world lies with you.”  I kind of love this.

(via animatedamerican)

aesthilia: ‘This is a nonsense,’ he said. ‘And you, Vimes, are no knight. Only a king can make -’ ‘There’s a good few lordships in this city created by the Patricians,’ said Vimes. ‘Your friend Lord Downey, for one. You were saying?’ ‘Then if you persist in playing games I will say that before a knight is…