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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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• Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

  Clarence Darrow

  Action, Emotion, Instinct

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing

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

  Clarence Darrow

  Order, Democracy, Too Much

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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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• Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

  Clarence Darrow

  Jealous, Men, Soul

  "Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom".

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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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• 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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• 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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• Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.

  Clarence Darrow

  Mean, Fighting, Men

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.83, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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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• 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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• Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Chloroform, Fit

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• None meet life honestly and few heroically.

  Clarence Darrow

  Life, Honestly

  "Infidels and Heretics: An Agnostic's Anthology". Book by Clarence Darrow and Wallace Rice, 1929.

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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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• Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.

  Clarence Darrow

  Hero, My Hero

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.73, Lulu.com

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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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• To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder
  and doubt and guess.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Years, Doubt

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

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• You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

  Clarence Darrow

  Life, Mean, Important

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• Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.

  Clarence Darrow

  People, Birth Control, Remember

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.

  Clarence Darrow

  Good Friend, Men, Law

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.99, Sheba Blake Publishing

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