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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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 there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
Clarence Darrow
I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
Clarence Darrow
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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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
Clarence Darrow
Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.
Clarence Darrow
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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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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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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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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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.
Clarence Darrow
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
Clarence Darrow
Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
Clarence Darrow
The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
Clarence Darrow
I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god he would be a devil.
Clarence Darrow
