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.
CLARENCE DARROWChase after the truth like all hell.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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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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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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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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It 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.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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 had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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