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.
CLARENCE DARROWInside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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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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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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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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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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To think is to differ.
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