The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
CLARENCE DARROWI 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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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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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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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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