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.
Terry Goodkind: Ruling
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“Wizard's Seventh Rule
Life is the future, not the past.”
Terry Goodkind book The Pillars of Creation
Source: The Pillars of Creation
“Wizard's Third Rule
Passion rules reason, for better or for worse.”
Terry Goodkind Blood of the Fold
Source: Blood of the Fold
“Wizard's Second Rule
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.”
Terry Goodkind book Stone of Tears
Source: Stone of Tears
“Wizard's Eighth Rule
Talga Vassternich.
(Deserve Victory)”
Terry Goodkind book Naked Empire
Source: Naked Empire
“No one is as fanatical as a convert. -Kahlan, Wizard's First Rule”
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