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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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• Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Belief, Don't Believe

  The New York Times, April 19, 1936.

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• Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which we call [physical] law. ... No one attributes freewill or motive to the material world. Is the conduct of man or the other animals any more subject to whim or choice than the action of the planets? ... We know that man's every act is induced by motives that led or urged him here or there; that the sequence of cause and effect runs through the whole universe, and is nowhere more compelling than with man.

  Clarence Darrow

  Running, Moving, Men

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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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• Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business, and, besides, could not be done. The line between honesty and dishonesty is a narrow, shifting one and usually lets those get by that are the most subtle and already have more than they can use.

  Clarence Darrow

  Honesty, Lying, Law

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.84, Lulu.com

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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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• We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

  Clarence Darrow

  Life, Wisdom, Knowledge

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• We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.

  Clarence Darrow

  Taken, Heart, Killers

  Testimony before congressional committee, 1 Feb. 1926

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• My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.

  Clarence Darrow

  Long Ago, Bylaws, Moral

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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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• 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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• 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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• For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.

  Clarence Darrow

  Anger, Judgement, Rooms

  "The Story of My Life".

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• If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, America, Ifs

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• We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Despair, Prison

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.90, Lulu.com

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• All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Dislike Someone, Wish

  "The Story of My Life". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1932.

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• An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

  Clarence Darrow

  Religious, Doubt, Atheism

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

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• Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.

  Clarence Darrow

  Retirement, People, Habit

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• In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.

  Clarence Darrow

  Cake, Choices, Way

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

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• Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Thinking, Mind

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.119, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The consideration and kindness shown by unfortunates to each other are surprising to those who have no experience with this class of men. Often to find real sympathy you must go to those who know what misery means.

  Clarence Darrow

  Kindness, Real, Mean

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.127, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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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