An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
CLARENCE DARROWYou can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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The law is a horrible business.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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