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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
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Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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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.
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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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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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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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