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Famous Terry Goodkind Quotes
“Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.”
Terry Goodkind Faith of the Fallen
Source: Faith of the Fallen
Terry Goodkind Quotes about life
“I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!”
Terry Goodkind book Stone of Tears
Source: Stone of Tears
“Your life is yours alone, rise up and live it!- Richard, Faith of the Fallen”
Terry Goodkind Faith of the Fallen
Quotes from the Books
Source: Faith of the Fallen
“Wizard's Seventh Rule
Life is the future, not the past.”
Terry Goodkind book The Pillars of Creation
Source: The Pillars of Creation
“Sometimes that's all life is… One desperate act after another.”
Terry Goodkind book Stone of Tears
Source: Stone of Tears
Terry Goodkind Quotes about people
“I wish people had half the honor of dragons.”
Terry Goodkind book Wizard's First Rule
Source: Wizard's First Rule
Q&A page at the Terry Goodkind Official Site http://www.prophets-inc.com/communicate/q_and_a.html <br class="br">Context: People use democracy as a free-floating abstraction disconnected from reality. Democracy in and of itself is not necessarily good. Gang rape, after all, is democracy in action.<br>All men have the right to live their own life. Democracy must be rooted in a rational philosophy that first and foremost recognizes the right of an individual. A few million Imperial Order men screaming for the lives of a much smaller number of people in the New World may win a democratic vote, but it does not give them the right to those lives, or make their calls for such killing right.<br>Democracy is not a synonym for justice or for freedom. Democracy is not a sacred right sanctifying mob rule. Democracy is a principle that is subordinate to the inalienable rights of the individual.
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“If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.”
Variant: Zedd used to tell me that if the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way." - Richard
Q&A page at the Terry Goodkind Official Site http://www.prophets-inc.com/communicate/q_and_a.html <br class="br">Context: People use democracy as a free-floating abstraction disconnected from reality. Democracy in and of itself is not necessarily good. Gang rape, after all, is democracy in action.<br>All men have the right to live their own life. Democracy must be rooted in a rational philosophy that first and foremost recognizes the right of an individual. A few million Imperial Order men screaming for the lives of a much smaller number of people in the New World may win a democratic vote, but it does not give them the right to those lives, or make their calls for such killing right.<br>Democracy is not a synonym for justice or for freedom. Democracy is not a sacred right sanctifying mob rule. Democracy is a principle that is subordinate to the inalienable rights of the individual.
Interview by John C. Snider (2003) at SciFiDimensions.com http://www.scifidimensions.com/Aug03/terrygoodkind.htm <br class="br">Context: Fantasy allows you to shine a different kind of light on human beings. I believe the only valid use of fantasy is to illustrate important human themes. Magic in my novels is used in three ways: the simplest is as a metaphor for technology. A good example is a magic carpet. There's no magic carpet in my novels, but if someone needs to travel a great distance, they could use a magic carpet, while in a contemporary novel they'd use a car. The second way, and I think the most important, is as a metaphor for individuality and individual ability. The mediocre world doesn't want individuals to rise above what everyone else is doing. The third way I use magic is as a metaphor for coming out of an age of mysticism into a Renaissance. So, in a way it's the struggle between the Dark Ages and the Renaissance. … I never allow my characters to use magic to solve their problems. Some of their peripheral problems are solved through their magical abilities, but it's couched in terms of overcoming those problems in a thinking way. The major conflicts in the books are always solved through human intellect, through thinking out the problem and coming up with a solution. It's never "I'll just wave my magic wand over the bad guys and have them all fall down dead!"
Terry Goodkind Quotes
“I am who I am; no more, no less.”
Terry Goodkind book Wizard's First Rule
Source: Wizard's First Rule
“Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.”
Terry Goodkind book Wizard's First Rule
Source: Wizard's First Rule
“no army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.”
Terry Goodkind book Wizard's First Rule
Source: Wizard's First Rule
“We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.”
Terry Goodkind book Stone of Tears
Variant: We all can be no more, or less, than who we are.
Source: Stone of Tears
“When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.”
Terry Goodkind book The Pillars of Creation
Source: The Pillars of Creation
Terry Goodkind book Wizard's First Rule
Quotes from the Books
Source: Nothing is ever easy. Zedd- Wizard's First Rule
“Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.”
Terry Goodkind Faith of the Fallen
The Romantic Manifesto (1969)
Source: Faith of the Fallen
“Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.”
Terry Goodkind Faith of the Fallen
Source: Faith of the Fallen
“Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.”
Terry Goodkind book Wizard's First Rule
Source: Wizard's First Rule
“Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.”
Terry Goodkind Blood of the Fold
Source: Blood of the Fold
“In the darkest hours we must believe in ourselves.”
Terry Goodkind Faith of the Fallen
Source: Faith of the Fallen
“Only a fool walks into the future backwards.”
Terry Goodkind book Stone of Tears
Source: Stone of Tears
“Right and wrong are not the product of census.”
Terry Goodkind book Naked Empire
Source: Naked Empire
“Wizard's Third Rule
Passion rules reason, for better or for worse.”
Terry Goodkind Blood of the Fold
Source: Blood of the Fold
“I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act.”
Terry Goodkind book Soul of the Fire
Source: Soul of the Fire
“Everybody knows it. Wizards are supposed to have beards. It's common knowledge.”
Terry Goodkind book Wizard's First Rule
Source: Wizard's First Rule
“There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.”
Terry Goodkind book Soul of the Fire
Source: Soul of the Fire
“Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.”
Terry Goodkind book Temple of the Winds
Source: Temple of the Winds
“But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest.”
Terry Goodkind book Soul of the Fire
Source: Soul of the Fire
“You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself”
Terry Goodkind book The Omen Machine
Source: The Omen Machine
“Wizard's Second Rule
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.”
Terry Goodkind book Stone of Tears
Source: Stone of Tears
Terry Goodkind book Wizard's First Rule
Source: Wizard's First Rule
