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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.
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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If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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I am pleading for the future I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.
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You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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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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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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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