I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
CLARENCE DARROW
Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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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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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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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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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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