The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
CLARENCE DARROWEverybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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 a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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