The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
CLARENCE DARROWTo 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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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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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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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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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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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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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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