I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
CLARENCE DARROWI am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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