The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.


Address to Yale Law Graduates (1931); also in The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses (1952), p. 87.

Learned Hand Quotes

The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others,...

The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others,...

The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others,...

The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others,...