For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
CLARENCE DARROWLaws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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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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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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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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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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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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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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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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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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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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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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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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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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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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