The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
CLARENCE DARROW
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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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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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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To think is to differ.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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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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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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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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