Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
CLARENCE DARROW
Those 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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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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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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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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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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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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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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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