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  • Lawyer
  • 1891 - 1969
  • 7 quotes

Thurman Arnold, a lawyer (1891 - 1969), is quoted 7 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Dissent, Sacred, Class and Economic.

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Dissent is not sacred; the right of dissent is.

Economic theology is the opiate of the middle classes.

Unhappy is a people that has run out of words to describe what is going on.

No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in the pulpit.

It is a part of the function of "law" to give recognition to ideas representing the exact opposite of established conduct. Most of the complications arise from the necessity of pretending to do one thing, while actually doing another.

The spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude, trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient interests, and then attempting to write an opinion which explains the difference between that nude and some other nude has elements of low comedy.

The US has developed two coordinate governing classes: the one, called 'business,' building cities, manufacturing and distributing goods, and holding complete and autocratic power over the livelihood of millions; the other, called 'government,' concerned with preaching and exemplification of spiritual ideals, so caught in a mass of theory, that when it wished to move in a practical world it had to do so by means of a sub rosa political machine.

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