Clarence Darrow Quotes - Page 4

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• Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Running, Wisdom

  The Sign Magazine, May 1938.

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• To think is to differ.

  Clarence Darrow

  Education, Teacher, Thinking

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• The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

  Clarence Darrow

  Fate, Dirt, Sides

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.411, Lulu.com

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• Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.

  Clarence Darrow

  Jealous, Heart, Eye

  Clarence Darrow's funeral oration for John Peter Altgeld, March 14, 1902.

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• Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.

  Clarence Darrow

  Mean, Rebel, Succeed

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.

  Clarence Darrow

  Life, School, Humanity

  "Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays".

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• Religion is based on the insistence that over and above all is a purpose and a guiding hand that is beneficent and kind, and would not leave a hair unnumbered or let a sparrow fall unnoticed to the ground. Those who cherish such hallucinations forget that the all-loving power is inflicting tuberculosis, cancer, famine, and pestilence on the trusting, simple sons of men.

  Clarence Darrow

  God, Religious, Cancer

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• Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

  Clarence Darrow

  Dream, Imagination, Perspective

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.

  Clarence Darrow

  Order, Democracy, Too Much

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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.

  Clarence Darrow

  Home, Men, Atheism

  Clarence Darrow (2013). “In the Clutches of the Law: Clarence Darrow's Letters”, p.465, Univ of California Press

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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.

  Clarence Darrow

  Courage, Hippie, Bravery

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

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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

  Hate, Hunting, Animal

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.91, Lulu.com

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• Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.

  Clarence Darrow

  Winning, Doe, Lawyer

  Clarence Seward Darrow (2017). “Industrial Conspiracies”, p.6, Library of Alexandria

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• Cheating, having 'hoes,' none of that is cute. To be honest, it's really immature. I don't see how people take pride in breaking someone's heart. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

  Clarence Darrow

  Cute, Cheating, Heart

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• There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

  Clarence Darrow

  Errors, Evil, Soul

  Clarence Darrow (1974). “A Persian pearl, and other essays”

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• Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Rational, Humans

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

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• The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Intelligent, Abnormal

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.162, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It may never come, but I fancy than no man who has sympathy for the human race does not wish that sometime those who labor should have the whole product of their toil. Probably it will never come, but I wish that the time might come when men who work in the industries would own the industries.

  Clarence Darrow

  Business, Men, Race

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.142, University of Chicago Press

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• Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

  Clarence Darrow

  Art, Book, Writing

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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.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Race, Evil

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• The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

  Clarence Darrow

  Ideas, Alive, Immortal Life

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• No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

  Clarence Darrow

  Loyalty, Gun, Together

  "Resist Not Evil". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1904.

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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.

  Clarence Darrow

  Government, Earth, Resistance

  Clarence Darrow (1902). “Resist Not Evil”, p.1, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Work, Men

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• Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

  Clarence Darrow

  Hatred, Charity, Moral

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