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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or, you know, click on the image, right click and say "Open in a new tab" (or just click on it again), then click on it a third time and it will open in a magnified form.

Then you will be able to view it with as many pixels as you want.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I think our mobiles have different resolutions.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

not actually implying everyone is officially criminal

It's Ankh-Morpork, I think canonically only Carrot isn't a criminal in that town

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Thanks for finding that stuff! Yeah I suppose that "everyone was guilty of something" line just didn't age well for me. You're right that Vimes is certainly no fascist, especially given the other events in Night Watch.