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 DARROWPhysical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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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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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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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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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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