Mark Helprin Quotes

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

There will be justice," said Brutha. "If there is no justice, there is nothing.

I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

If all men were just there would be no need of valor.

A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.

Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.

Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself.

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

Be just before you are generous.

My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.

But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.

Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Justice is to be found only in imagination.

Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness in an everlasting stream.

It’s not what I as a judge believe is right. It is what I believe the normal man of reasonable ability and integrity believes is right.

…aspiration for justice often finds itself the captive of ideologies which hide or pervert its meaning …

We need a President who is more interested in being right and just than being President.

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. Fiat justitia et ruant coeli.

You cannot institute any equality between right and wrong.

What is right is not derived from the rule, but the rule arises from our knowledge of what is right