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.
CLARENCE DARROWProbably 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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