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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

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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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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There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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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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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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Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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The law is a horrible business.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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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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