Terry Goodkind Quotes

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

In all governments fear is recognized as one of the grounds for the enforcement of law. In even the freest nations and under the highest form of civilization the public opinion that administers law makes its demand partly in the interest of essential right, partly with the instinct of self-preservation against the forces of evil, and partly for the punishment of wrong. Punishment in itself is not reformatory; it is retributive; it is deterrent; it plays upon fear.

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.

In Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil, those who disrespect the law will feel the weight of that very same law.

The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs.

Respect for the law is not an obligation which is exhausted or obliterated by willingness to accept the penalty for breaking it.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay.

Criminals are punished, that others may be deterred.

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

Criminals are not the victims of society; society is the victim of criminals.

The most malign of all these dangers today is disregard and disobedience of law. Crime is increasing. Confidence in rigid and speedy justice is decreasing.

The magistrate has the right to enforce what he thinks, and he who is conscious of the truth has a right to suffer.

Conscience and public opinion enforce the laws. The police suppress the exceptions.

Pardon one offence and you encourage the commission of many.

A judge who cannot punish, associates himself in the end with the criminal.

Criminals don't care what the law is.

The best crime stories are always about the crime and its consequences - you know, 'Crime And Punishment' is the classic. Where you have the crime, and its consequences are the story, but considering the crime and the consequences makes you think about the society in which the crime takes place, if you see what I mean.