“You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.”

—  Terry Pratchett, book Witches Abroad

Source: Witches Abroad (1991)

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