Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
CLARENCE DARROWLaws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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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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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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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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