The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
CLARENCE DARROWThe 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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You can only be free if I am free.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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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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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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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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