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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.

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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Criticism
Iconoclast
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
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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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Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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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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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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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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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
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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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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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 truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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