Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
CLARENCE DARROWWe’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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You 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.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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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 simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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