The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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 always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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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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