Walter Van Tilburg Clark Professions : Novelist Born : August 3, 1909 Died : November 10, 1971 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Walter Van Tilburg Clark We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling. Walter Van Tilburg Clark strong justice feelings True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time? Walter Van Tilburg Clark taken men years Is it really so important to be different? Walter Van Tilburg Clark different important Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors