I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
CLARENCE DARROWFreedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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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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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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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 am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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 difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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