History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
CLARENCE DARROWI do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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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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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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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 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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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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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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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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