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Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.

Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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Punishment
Unless
Courses
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Freewill
Offender
Offenders

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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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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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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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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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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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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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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