No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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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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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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