Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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