Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
CLARENCE DARROWI am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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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 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.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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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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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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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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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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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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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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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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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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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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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