Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
CLARENCE DARROWThe objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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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 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.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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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 don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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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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