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.
CLARENCE DARROWI am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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To think is to differ.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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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 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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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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 law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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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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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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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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