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.
CLARENCE DARROWThe 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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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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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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