Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
CLARENCE DARROWWe are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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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 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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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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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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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