“… A great, rolling sea of evil. Shallow in some parts, yes, but deeper… oh, so much deeper in others. But men like you build these little rafts out of rules and vaguely good intentions and you say ‘This is the opposite. This will triumph in the end.’ Fascinating.”
-Vetinari to Vimes
Paraphrased from the top of my head haha sorry if I’ve mucked it up. God what a character Vimes is. I do believe he also quoted guilty of thinking something like “everyone is guilty of something if you could only find out what,” so maybe not a paragon of privacy in every iteration but a fantastic character nonetheless. Certainly gotta be among the best cops in fiction, considering he also nearly won a sort of people’s revolution haha.
Just because the picture lacks quite a few pixels, I’m gonna leave this here for better legibility.
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’.
And I checked and the quote you remembered was from “Night Watch”, published in 2002.
Everyone was guilty of something. Vimes knew that. Every copper knew that. That was how you maintained your authority.
But luckily Vimes isn’t a fascist deep down, so it’s more referring to the general psyche and not actually implying everyone is officially criminal
-Vetinari to Vimes
Paraphrased from the top of my head haha sorry if I’ve mucked it up. God what a character Vimes is. I do believe he also quoted guilty of thinking something like “everyone is guilty of something if you could only find out what,” so maybe not a paragon of privacy in every iteration but a fantastic character nonetheless. Certainly gotta be among the best cops in fiction, considering he also nearly won a sort of people’s revolution haha.
Just because the picture lacks quite a few pixels, I’m gonna leave this here for better legibility.
And I checked and the quote you remembered was from “Night Watch”, published in 2002.
But luckily Vimes isn’t a fascist deep down, so it’s more referring to the general psyche and not actually implying everyone is officially criminal