My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
CLARENCE DARROWSomeday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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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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You can only be free if I am free.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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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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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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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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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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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 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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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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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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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 am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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