No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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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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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