If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
CLARENCE DARROWInstead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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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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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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The 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.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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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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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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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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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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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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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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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 am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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