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.
CLARENCE DARROW
You 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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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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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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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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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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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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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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