Terry Goodkind Quotes

I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Those who are innocent today may be guilty tomorrow.

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.

Nations cannot endure in sin.

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

I would not hold that we must judge by the favorable or adverse result alone whether an undertaking was just or unjust.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

Compassion towards the wicked – is cruelty to all beings.

If I do bad, shoot me.

What kind of world is it if we allow people who are violent and do terrible things off the hook? What does that say about the world we're living in - it's like a world upside down, right?

The law is a crude machine at best, and only spits out something approaching justice of its attendants are committed to justice. As lawyering has become less about doing right and more about doing what you can get away with, our standards of acceptable shenanigans-as-usual seem to be in a free fall.

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.

Young girls are the chatelaines of truth; they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations.