We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
CLARENCE DARROWWorking people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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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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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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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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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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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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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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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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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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