Quotes from Terry Goodkind

If we are to survive, we need magic now more than ever to defend ourselves from those in the Old World. We need to learn, discover, create. We need to use our reasoning minds and truth.

People, if they don't take the lives of others, have the right to live their life.

We have a responsibility to life. The living should be our only concern. Since it is the Sword of Truth - a weapon created to fight for the truth - people won't have reason to expect that it could also actually be the key to the power of Orden. Quinn, you know how dangerous the power of Orden is. Used in the wrong way. it very well could breach the veil and destroy the world of life. We have to do everything in our power to see to it that such a thing never comes to pass.

Ein Moment unfassbarer Gewalt - ebenso unverfälscht schön und köstlich wie grausam.

Darken Rahl, as had his father before him, considered women merely vessels for the man's seed, the dirt it grew in, unworthy of higher recognition.

Create a better idea of what the key should be. One that makes more sense to people, so that they believe in the diversion we create.

Don't make promises, because circumstances have a way of making you regret them.

Dictators always seek to take weapons away from people so that there can be no effective opposition to their rule.

Of course, disinformation, Quinn said. I can do that. I'll leave out critical events, then I'll put in false information and twist everything that has happened around into a vague, shadowy history that obscures what really took place.

The power of Orden predates the star shift.

Every murderer thinks the victim needed killing.

The room, rather than breaking into whispering, as Dalton expected, fell into a stunned, dead silence. Dalton then realized, for the first time, really, that he had been born and lived his entire life under the reign of the old Sovereign. An era had ended. Many in the room had to be thinking the same thing.

Life is about change. Change has both good and bad elements to it. You can either deal with the way things have changed and move forward, or you can let bitterness about what's lost in the past rob you of your future.

Something in this world always wants to kill you. Don't forget that.

Zedd stepped forward, his hands on his hips, his voice incredulous. "You would let a man fly upon you? A red dragon? You would take him where he wishes to go?" Scarlet puffed smoke at the wizard, forcing him to take a step back. "A man, no. This is the Seeker. He commands me. I would fly this one to the underworld and back.

You are not struggling to rule, but to give others a chance at ruling their own lives. So stop ruling and let them live those lives.

No one is as fanatical as a convert.

Just because knowledge exists, doesn't mean people know how to use it .

Though it hadn't been in his mind, and even though he would not entertain such an offer, he was nevertheless disappointed to find she thought the idea repulsive.

This is the Sword of Truth.

Ah, but Sorceress, on such a journey as ours, is one ever truly done with saving the world?

The woman had a voice that could unwind a good rope.

panicked people didn't listen to reason and didn't want to hear the truth.

Faith itself, you see, is the key-the magic wand that they wave over the bubbling brew they have concocted to render it 'self-evident'.