Terry Goodkind: Quotes about life

“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.
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.”

Terry Goodkind

Q&A page at the Terry Goodkind Official Site http://www.prophets-inc.com/communicate/q_and_a.html
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.
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.
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.

Life , Men , People , Democracy

“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

Life , Faith

“Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.”

Terry Goodkind

Life , Communication , Personality

“Wizard's Seventh Rule
Life is the future, not the past.”

Terry Goodkind book The Pillars of Creation

Source: The Pillars of Creation

Life , Past , Future