One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

Public order is a fragile thing, and if you don't fix the first broken window, soon all the windows will be broken.

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.

There are no more liberals Theyve all been mugged.

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

And the people of Ankh-Morpork are so thirsty for novelty that the whole city is, you might say, hurrying the future along for the sheer joy of watching its progress.

The city is a plague… and I am the penicillin.

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to

God is the one who chooses our rulers

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

The soul's a sort of sentimental wife, That prays and whimpers of the higher life.

We assume that we have free will and that we make decisions, but we don't. Neurons do. We decide that this sum total driving us is a decision we have made for ourselves. But it is not.

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs.