The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
CLARENCE DARROWThe 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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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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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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