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.
CLARENCE DARROWTrue patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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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 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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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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The law is a horrible business.
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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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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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