The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
CLARENCE DARROWThere is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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 only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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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 have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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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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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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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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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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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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