Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
CLARENCE DARROWThe purpose of life is to live it.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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.
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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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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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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To think is to differ.
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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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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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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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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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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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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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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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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