Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
CLARENCE DARROWOne cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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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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To think is to differ.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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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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