I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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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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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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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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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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