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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

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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If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.
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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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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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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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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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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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