I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
CLARENCE DARROWAncestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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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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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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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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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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