The law is a horrible business.
CLARENCE DARROWTo think is to differ.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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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 nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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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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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You can only be free if I am free.
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