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.
CLARENCE DARROWEducation was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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 always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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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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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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