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The law is a horrible business.

Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
Horrible
Law
Business

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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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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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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 first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.
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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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There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
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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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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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.
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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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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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