The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
CLARENCE DARROWThe 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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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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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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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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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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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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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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