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 DARROWIt 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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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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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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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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