The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
CLARENCE DARROWThe 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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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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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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