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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

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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Ideas
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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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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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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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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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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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