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 DARROWNo nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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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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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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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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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 trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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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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