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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

Clarence Darrow

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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End Environment Important Lesson Life Live Relation
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Love Obedience Subject
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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Object Past Raise Rebel Voice World
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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Defect Exception Intelligence Reality
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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Conflict Fight Forever Liberty Man Obligation Preservation Tolerance
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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God Immortal Man Personal Production
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Freedom Human Institution Law
It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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Bad Cruelty Fear Goodness Himself People Punishment
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Offense Oppression Severe Visit
The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Black Freckle Man Truth White
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Children Live Ourselves Parents Ruin
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Happiness Laughter People Religion Yourself
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Afflict Comfortable Compassionate Human
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Clothes Fit Law People Service
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking
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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Distribution Fact Greatness Honesty Man Money Myself Question

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