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.
CLARENCE DARROWThe man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I 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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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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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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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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