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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
Clarence Darrow
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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god he would be a devil.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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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 is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.
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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.
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The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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The law is a horrible business.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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