The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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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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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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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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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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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