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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
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 man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
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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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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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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 never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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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 difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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.
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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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Criminal cases receive the attention of the press. The cruel and disagreeable things of life are more apt to get the newspaper space than the pleasant ones. It must be that most people enjoy hearing of and reading about the troubles of others. Perhaps men unconsciously feel that they rise in the general level as others go down.
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The law is a horrible business.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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