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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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 law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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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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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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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 have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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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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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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