The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
CLARENCE DARROWChloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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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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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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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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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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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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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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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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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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