Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
CLARENCE DARROWHistory repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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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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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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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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To think is to differ.
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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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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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