Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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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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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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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 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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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 simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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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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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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