Quotes from Terry Goodkind

She understood, now, why life had seemed so empty, so pointless: she herself had rendered it so in refusing to think.

This is how tyrants win the will of the people: with lies.

Because, Richard, many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors.

Cara, in the lead, came to a halt beside them, looking from one to the other. Still with the clothes, Lord Rahl?

Like all power, it simply exists. It's the user who determines what use it will be put to.

History, like memories themselves, tended to become distorted with the passing of time, or worse, corrupted with the agendas of those writing it.

Not all choices in life are ones you would like, but those are all that are presented to you. Sometimes you must choose what is better for the ones you love than yourself.

Don't try to fix the past, dear one—it can't be done.

Third Time tricked, marks the fool.

This was life as it should be lived—proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man. This was the rightful exaltation of the individual, the nobility of the human spirit.

She had never asked why it was right for her to be a slave to another's desires, but not evil for them to enslave her. She was not contributing to the betterment of mankind, but was merely a servant to countless puling little tyrants. Evil was not one large entity, but a ceaseless torrent of small wrongs left unchallenged, until they festered into monsters.

The entire mass of people before the palace erupted in a deafening roar. And then, as one, they lunged forward.

Slaves, slaves to anything or anyone, despite how much they abhor it, will often cling to that slavery out of fear the alternative would be insufferable.

We all make mistakes. The people who love us forgive the mistakes. The people who won't forgive don't really matter

I will give you war; a real war, not a slaughter of women and children but a war lead by me, the Mother Confessor, a woman! War without quarter! - Kahlan Amnell, Mother Confessor

Your loveliness is not a mask, layered over a rotten core. It blossoms from the beauty inside.

It's true that this is not a book you stick on a shelf. This is a story you will instead always carry in your heart.

Their conscious, deliberate act of murder takes the irreplaceable value of life from another. A murderer, by his own choice to kill, forfeits the right to his own life.

Worse, she already knew that there were bitter people devoted to the morbid ideal of the presutural cannibalism of appeasement that they defined as peace

Knowing when not to fight is just as important as knowing how.

We teach our children to help those in need because one day we might be the ones in need, and we can only hope to earn such help if we are worthy, if we are the kind who would give it and not just receive it. We believe in treating others as we would want to be treated.

I'm going to do the worst possible thing I could do to you and your people—what my grandfather would have done to you. "I'm going to leave you all to suffer the consequences of your own actions.

Truth is hard to sell; it gives no sense of purpose. It is simply truth.

You can't reason with a nightmare