Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
CLARENCE DARROWInstead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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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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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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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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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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The law is a horrible business.
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The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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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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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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 don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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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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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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