Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
CLARENCE DARROWReligion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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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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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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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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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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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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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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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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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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The purpose of life is to live it.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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