The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
CLARENCE DARROWWe’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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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.
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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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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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