Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
CLARENCE DARROWAll men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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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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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.
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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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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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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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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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