Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
CLARENCE DARROWThe 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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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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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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 world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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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’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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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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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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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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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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