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• Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

  Clarence Darrow

  War, Men, Effort

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.220, Lulu.com

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• The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

  Clarence Darrow

  Life, Men, Purpose

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

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• I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

  Clarence Darrow

  Mother, Atheist, Believe

  Speech, Toronto, Canada, 1930

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

  Clarence Darrow

  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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• Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• People in this world are not often logical.

  Clarence Darrow

  People, World, Logical

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• Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Home, Thinking

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

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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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• The law is a horrible business.

  Clarence Darrow

  Business, Law, Horrible

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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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• The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his fellow men. In youth he may have learned the command, 'Thou shalt not kill,' but the ruler takes the boy just as he enters manhood and teaches him that his highest duty is to shoot a bullet through his neighbor's heart - and this, unmoved by passion or feeling or hatred, and without the least regard to right or wrong, but simply because his ruler gives the word.

  Clarence Darrow

  War, Heart, Passion

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• A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.

  Clarence Darrow

  Strong, Believe, Independent

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.205, The Floating Press

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• I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.

  Clarence Darrow

  Lonely, Tired, Men

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.233, Lulu.com

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• Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.

  Clarence Darrow

  Soul, Pity

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• Sympathy is the child of imagination

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Imagination

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.60, Lulu.com

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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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• Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Believe, Emotional

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• If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who is guided by his reason possibly imagine a soul independent of a body, or the place of its residence, or the character of it, or anything concerning it? If man is justified in any belief or disbelief on any subject, he is warranted in the disbelief in a soul. Not one scrap of evidence exists to prove any such impossible thing.

  Clarence Darrow

  Character, Independent, Men

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

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• The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and
  unwilling serfs

  Clarence Darrow

  War, Building Up, People

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

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• Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Law, Two

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

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

  Clarence Darrow

  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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• No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.

  Clarence Darrow

  Criticism

  "Voltaire". Essay by Clarence Darrow, 1916.

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

  Clarence Darrow

  Lawyer, Fees

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• Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

  Clarence Darrow

  Humorous, Atheism, Serious

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