Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
CLARENCE DARROWFreedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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The law is a horrible business.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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