The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
CLARENCE DARROWChase after the truth like all hell.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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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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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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To think is to differ.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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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 Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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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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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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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