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.
CLARENCE DARROWYou can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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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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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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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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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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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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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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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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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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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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