If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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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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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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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