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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

Clarence Darrow

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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Battle Fight Life Live Myself Oppression Poor Power Weakness
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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Charity Hate Misfortune Revenge
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source
The purpose of life is to live it.
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Life Live One Liner Purpose
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Believe Document Human Personal
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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Ignorance Man Myself Pretend
I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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Distribution Fact Greatness Honesty Man Money Myself Question
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
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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Class Community Domination Law Myself Natural Protection Remember
The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Black Freckle Man Truth White
Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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Chase Freedom Hell Touch Truth Yourself
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Children Himself Intelligence Parents
The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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Better Fight Himself Man
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Children Fit Live Mercy
Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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Kill Murder Notice Potential Reading Satisfaction
The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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Death Himself Man Purpose

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