I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
CLARENCE DARROWAs long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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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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