No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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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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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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Ancestors 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.
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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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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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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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