I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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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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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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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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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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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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