Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
CLARENCE DARROWTrue patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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The law is a horrible business.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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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 law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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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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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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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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