We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
CLARENCE DARROWWars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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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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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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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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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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