I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
CLARENCE DARROWTo say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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 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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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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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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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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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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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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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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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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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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