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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying or, to hang to life until death takes him.

Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
Men
Wiggle
Life
Hang
Like
Dying
Along
Takes
Purpose
Death
Without

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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 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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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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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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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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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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