We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
CLARENCE DARROWAnyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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.
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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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 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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