Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
CLARENCE DARROWYou can only be free if I am free.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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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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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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The law is a horrible business.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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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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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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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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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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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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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.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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