Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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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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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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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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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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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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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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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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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