Raymond E. Feist Quotes

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

I killed one man to save 100,000.

I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.

I'll do what I can to promote the greater good. If you can harm one person to save 1,000, I'm gonna do it every f**king time.

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

You have tremendous flexibility in defining both the greater good and the greater community. If you don't succeed in this, then you will continue to pull that heavy wagon up the mountain, and despite the fact that you are pulling it, it will somehow run over your own foot.

We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success.

When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals.

If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating, if it meant millions of people would die.

If it's anything that's going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don't think [the end] justifies the means... Yeah; but then again if you could hurt ten people to save 100 people and there was no option, what would you do? I can't really address that.

I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me.

It costs you something to do good!

No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.

I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.

I love bunt plays. I love the idea of the bunt. I love the idea of the sacrifice. Even the word is good. Giving yourself up for the good of the whole.

For me, life is about experience and being a good person.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.