The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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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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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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