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.
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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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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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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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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