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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

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
I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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Earth Existence Feeling Himself Home Man
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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Ancestor Born Follow Life Mean Rebel
I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Cruelty Myself Right Suspicious
You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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End Human Important Method Place Society
Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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Conflict Fight Forever Liberty Man Obligation Preservation Tolerance
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Freedom Human Institution Law
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Greatness Idea Monument
You can only be free if I am free.
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Freedom Myself One Liner
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Friendship Man Oneself Work
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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Doubt Natural Opinion Part Strong World
To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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Doubt Explanation Mystery Origin Question Universe
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe God Mom Myself
The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Brain Creation Money Truth
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Happiness Himself Man Wrong
The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Children Confidence Difference Limitation Man Youth
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Blank Forever Home Live Man Prison
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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Dreams Fact Forever Imagination Perspective Right True
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Justice Politics Room
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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Custom Ideas Law Old Ourselves Responsibility
Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Heroes Idol One Liner
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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Crime Evil God Goodness Human Race Sin
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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Animal Death Emotion Enjoyment Hate Help
I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Believe Goodness Mom Myself
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Modern Safety Time Truth Voice
The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Death Fear God Investigation Study Wisdom

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