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.
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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You can only be free if I am free.
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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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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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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 difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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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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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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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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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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