No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
CLARENCE DARROWThe purpose of life is to live it.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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 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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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 always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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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.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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