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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
Severest
Possibly
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Iconoclast

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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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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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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs
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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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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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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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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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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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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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The purpose of life is to live it.
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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.
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