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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

Clarence Darrow

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Clothes Fit Law People Service
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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Forever Object Rebel World Wrong
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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Earth Existence Feeling Himself Home Man
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Children Live Ourselves Parents Ruin
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.
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Class Community Domination Law Myself Natural Protection Remember
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Blank Forever Home Live Man Prison
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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Errors Evil Soul Truth
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Contentment Kill Sick
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source
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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Animal Death Emotion Enjoyment Hate Help
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Freedom Human Institution Law
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Hate Injustice Land Patriot True
The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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Death Himself Man Purpose
Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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Ancestor Born Follow Life Mean Rebel

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