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 DARROWIn 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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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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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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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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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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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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