The law is a horrible business.
CLARENCE DARROWAs long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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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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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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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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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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To think is to differ.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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