Judge Holden

Character in Blood Meridian From: Blood Meridian

Mysterious, erudite antagonist and leader of the filibusters

394 quotes

"Whatever is true must be true forever"
Truth
"All acts are moves in some greater game"
Wisdom
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent"
Power
"The world cannot be known"
Knowledge
"In every trade save war men have sought to perfect their instruments"
War
"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Power
"The world cannot be otherwise than it is."
Philosophy
"You cannot petition the lord with prayer."
Faith
"Only the damned are pleased with their condition."
Truth
"In the end we are all judges."
Justice
"All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain."
Beauty
"Nothing is written upon the earth that cannot be razed."
Power
"Time is the fires in which we burn."
Time
"All war is one war."
War
"Knowledge is power."
Knowledge
"In the end all accounts are settled."
Justice
"There is no redemption."
Faith
"The strong prey upon the weak."
Power
"All things move toward their destruction."
Death
"The world will not be cheated of its due."
Justice
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Philosophy
"You've no idea how strange other men are."
Philosophy
"There is no such thing as a closed book."
Knowledge
"The universe is a thing of beauty and mystery."
Beauty
"There is no murder. There is only the taking of life."
Philosophy
"Fire is the ultimate truth."
Philosophy
"Nothing is true that is not real."
Truth
"All order is in the end the order of death."
Death
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Philosophy
"War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him."
War