I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
CLARENCE DARROWThose 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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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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The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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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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