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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom

Clarence Darrow

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Afflict Comfortable Compassionate Human
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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Better Education Human Improvement Man Social
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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God Immortal Man Personal Production
For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Judgement Leaving Room Understand
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Freedom Human Institution Law
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Hate Injustice Land Patriot True
I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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Earth Existence Feeling Himself Home Man
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Bad Habit People Work Worst
Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Civilization Scope Trial
The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Children Confidence Difference Limitation Man Youth
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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Ancestor Born Follow Life Mean Rebel
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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Bad Cruelty Fear Goodness Himself People Punishment
There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Contentment Kill Sick
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Clothes Fit Law People Service
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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Ignorance Man Myself Pretend
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Poor Rich Trial
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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Dreams Fact Forever Imagination Perspective Right True
Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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Chase Freedom Hell Touch Truth Yourself
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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Best Common Friendship Help Kind Passenger
Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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Animal Death Emotion Enjoyment Hate Help
Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Forget Jury Lost Win
Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Chase Hell One Liner Truth
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Blank Forever Home Live Man Prison
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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Accomplishment Nation Path People Tax Willing Wrong
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Case Jury Law Reality
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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Class Community Domination Law Myself Natural Protection Remember
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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History Oneself Repeat

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