We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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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You can only be free if I am free.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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 origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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