Thurman Arnold Quotes

#1. As a pale-skinned, dark-haired Celtic sort, he didn't care for the heat.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.

Suzanne Curchod

#3. Without constantly pushing my senior colleagues to formulate decisions, I would never be able to learn and know what they are made of.

Peter Woo

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

Thurman Arnold

#5. It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

Questlove

#6. The loveliest things in life are but shadows; they come and go, and change and fade away ...

Charles Dickens

#7. Dissent is not sacred; the right of dissent is.

Thurman Arnold

#8. 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.

Thurman Arnold

#9. Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

Melina Marchetta

#10. I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.

Otto Hahn

#11. 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.

Thurman Arnold

#12. 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.

Thurman Arnold

#13. Economic theology is the opiate of the middle classes.

Thurman Arnold