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.
CLARENCE DARROWThe trouble with law is lawyers.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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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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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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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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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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To think is to differ.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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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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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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