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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.
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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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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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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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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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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The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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The law is a horrible business.
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With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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