Terry Goodkind: Idézetek angolul
“Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.”
Forrás: Faith of the Fallen
“If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.”
Változat: 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
Kontextus: 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.
Interview by John C. Snider (2003) at SciFiDimensions.com http://www.scifidimensions.com/Aug03/terrygoodkind.htm
Kontextus: 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!"
Q&A page at the Terry Goodkind Official Site http://www.prophets-inc.com/communicate/q_and_a.html
Kontextus: 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.
“I am who I am; no more, no less.”
Forrás: Wizard's First Rule
“Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.”
Forrás: Wizard's First Rule
“Your life is yours alone, rise up and live it!- Richard, Faith of the Fallen”
Quotes from the Books
Forrás: Faith of the Fallen
“… Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.”
Forrás: Soul of the Fire
“no army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.”
Forrás: Wizard's First Rule
“We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.”
Változat: We all can be no more, or less, than who we are.
Forrás: Stone of Tears
“When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.”
Forrás: The Pillars of Creation
Quotes from the Books
Forrás: Nothing is ever easy. Zedd- Wizard's First Rule
“Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.”
The Romantic Manifesto (1969)
Forrás: Faith of the Fallen
“Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.”
Forrás: Faith of the Fallen