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.
CLARENCE DARROWThe 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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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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