No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
CLARENCE DARROWThose who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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