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.
CLARENCE DARROWI have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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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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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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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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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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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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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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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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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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