Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
CLARENCE DARROWI knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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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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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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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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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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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