Terry Goodkind Quotes

The strong were always eating the weak.

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

All oppression creates a state of war.

The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.

Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.

It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.... My prison-house is but an intensified replica of the world beyond, the larger prison locked with the levers of Greed, guarded by the spawn of Hunger.

Don't be deceived. There is no justice but strength.

The sheep are happier of themselves than under the care of the wolves.

The Indians were not the aggressors, but I well knew that when the Indians and the whites started fighting, the Indians would never make peace until whipped, and therefore necessity compelled me to whip them.

Wolves can't catch what dogs do not expose.

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

Between the people and their enemies there can be nothing in common but the sword; we must govern by iron those who cannot be governed by justice; we must oppress the tyrant...