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.
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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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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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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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Probably 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.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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The law is a horrible business.
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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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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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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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You can only be free if I am free.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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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.
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To think is to differ.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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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 am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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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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