It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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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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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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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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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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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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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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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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