If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
CLARENCE DARROWI had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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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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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The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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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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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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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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