Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
CLARENCE DARROWHistory repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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To think is to differ.
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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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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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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