Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
CLARENCE DARROWIt must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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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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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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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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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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