Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
CLARENCE DARROWIf you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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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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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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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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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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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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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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It 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.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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