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.
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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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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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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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