Right or wrong is the same for everybody, you see, but the rights and the wrongs aren't the same.

— Lee Leander (Barbara Stanwyck), John Sargent (Fred Macmurray)

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7 seconds sound clip from the Remember the Night (1940) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:18:09 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- No, no. I mean, maybe you're a kleptomaniac.

- Oh, no, no. They tried that, though. No.

- You see, to be a kleptomaniac, you can't sell any of the stuff afterwards, or you lose your amateur standing.

- Ah, I don't understand it.

- Oh, I don't think you ever could understand because your mind is different.

- Right or wrong is the same for everybody, you see, but the rights and the wrongs aren't the same.

- Ah, that's ridiculous.

- Is it? All right, try it like this.

- Suppose you were starving to death. And you didn't have any food and you didn't have any money, and you didn't have any place to get anything.

- And there were some loaves of bread out in front of a market, and... Well, now, remember, you're starving to death. And the man's back was turned. Would you swipe one?

- You bet I would.

- That's because you're honest!

[...]

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