Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
CLARENCE DARROWAutobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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The law is a horrible business.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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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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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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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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