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• The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

  Clarence Darrow

  Fighting, Men, Fellow Man

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.154, University of Chicago Press

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• The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.

  Clarence Darrow

  Doubt, Study, Investigation

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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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.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Witty, Powerful

  Speech at Scopes trial, Dayton, Tenn., 15 July 1925

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• It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of an ancient and barbarous world in our dealing with crime. So long as this is observed and exercised there can be no change except to heap more cruelties and more wretchedness upon those who are the victims of our foolish system.

  Clarence Darrow

  Past, Practice, Years

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.93, Lulu.com

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• We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.

  Clarence Darrow

  Reading, Law, Two

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• The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

  Clarence Darrow

  Comfort, Humans, Can Do

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• The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

  Clarence Darrow

  Inspirational, Life, Children

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• Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

  Clarence Darrow

  Wisdom, Children, Teaching

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• I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

  Clarence Darrow

  Death, Mother, Atheist

  Speech, Toronto, Canada, 1930

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• Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

  Clarence Darrow

  Motivational, Law, Clothes

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• I am sure of very little, and I shouldn't be surprised if those things were wrong.

  Clarence Darrow

  Littles, Ifs

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• The trouble with law is lawyers.

  Clarence Darrow

  Law, Feet, Trouble

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• Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from, and about when they were written. We know that they were written by human beings who had no knowledge of science, little knowledge of life, and were influenced by the barbarous morality of primitive times, and were grossly ignorant of most things that men know today.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Book, Men

  "Why I Am an Agnostic: Including Expressions of Faith from a Protestant, a Catholic and a Jew". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1929.

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• History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Done, Distribution Of Wealth

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• Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

  Clarence Darrow

  Silence, Might, Contemplation

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.110, Lulu.com

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• The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Past, Voice

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.147, University of Chicago Press

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• Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

  Clarence Darrow

  Wrecks, Lawyer, Poet

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• The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

  Clarence Darrow

  Real, Trying, Trials

  "My trials by jury service" by Rick Gekoski, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2012.

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• Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts.

  Clarence Darrow

  Peace, Attitude, Men

  Clarence Darrow, S. T. Joshi (2005). “Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society”, p.89, Ohio University Press

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• I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

  Clarence Darrow

  Doubt, Religion, Ends

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.38, Lulu.com

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• An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

  Clarence Darrow

  Ideas, Cathedrals, Inherit The Wind

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• Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.

  Clarence Darrow

  Never Forget, Lost, Cases

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• I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

  Clarence Darrow

  Righteous, Righteous Indignation, Indignation

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.43, University of Chicago Press

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

  Clarence Darrow

  Freedom, Law, Institutions

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, University of Chicago Press

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