Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
CLARENCE DARROWEverybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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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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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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The law is a horrible business.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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