Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
CLARENCE DARROWThe truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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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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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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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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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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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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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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