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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.
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 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 iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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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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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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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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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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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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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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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 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.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.
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Cheating, having 'hoes,' none of that is cute. To be honest, it's really immature. I don't see how people take pride in breaking someone's heart. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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