The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
CLARENCE DARROWMy constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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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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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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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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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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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 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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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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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