There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
CLARENCE DARROWThere 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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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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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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To think is to differ.
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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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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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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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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 nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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