The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
CLARENCE DARROWNo 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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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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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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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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