The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
CLARENCE DARROWIn 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Those 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.
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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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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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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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To think is to differ.
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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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The law is a horrible business.
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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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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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