I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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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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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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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.
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