The law is a horrible business.
CLARENCE DARROWAn agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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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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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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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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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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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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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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