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.
CLARENCE DARROWIf a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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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 world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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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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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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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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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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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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