The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
CLARENCE DARROWYou can only be free if I am free.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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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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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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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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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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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 am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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