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• Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime. Endless statistics have been gathered on this subject which seem to show conclusively that property crimes are largely the result of the unequal distribution of wealth. But crime of any class cannot be safely ascribed to a single cause. Life is too complex, heredity is too variant and imperfect, too many separate things contribute to human behavior, to make it possible to trace all actions to a single cause.

  Clarence Darrow

  Class, Poverty, Causes

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• With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Organization, Labor Day

  The Railroad Trainman, November 1909.

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• If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.

  Clarence Darrow

  Party, Destiny, Men

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.10, Lulu.com

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• When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any subject, or being interested in anything excepting a religion which took care of the soul. As man doubted the primitive conceptions about religion, and no longer accepted the literal, miraculous teachings of ancient books, he set himself to understand nature.

  Clarence Darrow

  Book, Teaching, 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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• Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.

  Clarence Darrow

  Civilization, Trials, Scope

  Richard J. Jensen, Clarence Darrow (1992). “Clarence Darrow: The Creation of an American Myth”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.

  Clarence Darrow

  School, Theory, Teach

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• The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Lying, Men

  Clarence Darrow (1904). “Farmington”

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• In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Support, Religion

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• In this dilemma they evolved the theory of natural rights. If 'natural rights' means anything it means that the individual rights are to be determined by the conduct of Nature. But Nature knows nothing about rights in the sense of human conception.

  Clarence Darrow

  Mean, Rights, Determined

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.58, Lulu.com

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• Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

  Clarence Darrow

  Humorous, Men, Vermont

  "Foundations of Democracy: A Series of Debates". Book by Thomas Vernor Smith and Robert Alphonso Taft, 1939.

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• Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.

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  Punishment, Free Will, Select

  "The Story of My Life".

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• I go to a better tailor than any of you and pay more for my clothes. The only difference is that you probably don't sleep in yours.

  Clarence Darrow

  Sleep, Differences, Clothes

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• The ablest lawyers are always associated with the biggest fees.

  Clarence Darrow

  Lawyer, Fees

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• People in this world are not often logical.

  Clarence Darrow

  People, World, Logical

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• Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.

  Clarence Darrow

  People, Funeral, Church

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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.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Men, Long

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

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• I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.

  Clarence Darrow

  Kindness, Charity, Might

  A Plea for Mercy, delivered September 1924

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• It is not for the world to judge, but to crown them all alike. Each and all lived out their own being, did their work in their own way, and carried a reluctant, stupid humanity to greater
  possibilities and grander heights.

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  Stupid, Judging, Humanity

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

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• If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and newspapers. Soon you may set Catholic against Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the minds of men.

  Clarence Darrow

  Book, School, Men

  Clarence Darrow's remarks during The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes case in Dayton, Tennessee, July 13, 1925.

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• A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

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  Mind, Atheism, Body

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

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• Lawyers are natural politicians.

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  Lawyer, Politician, Natural

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• The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, White, Black

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.77, Lulu.com

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• The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

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  Future, Facts, Belief

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.388, Lulu.com

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• Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.

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  Justice, Infinite, Circumstances

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

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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.

  Clarence Darrow

  Hate, Ignorance, Thinking

  Clarence Darrow (1924). “Clarence Darrow on the Death Penalty”

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