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.
CLARENCE DARROWThe purpose of life is to live it.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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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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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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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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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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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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 sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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