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Life is Quotes by Clarence Darrow

9 Life is quotes by Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow, famed for his courtroom eloquence, turns his rhetorical skill toward life’s broader questions. This brief set of nine quotes captures his sharp, humanistic tone, offering a snapshot of his reflections that feel both legal and lyrical.

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The purpose of life is to live it.

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

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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…

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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…

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I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of…

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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach humanity our proper relation to the environment where…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.

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

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“One of the bravest, grandest champions of human liberty the world has ever seen. {Darrow on the great Robert Ingersoll }”

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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…

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“As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and if no man rebelled, those wrongs would…

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I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

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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…

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

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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…

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“ Robert G. Ingersoll was a great man. a wonderful intellect, a great soul of matchless courage, one of the great men of the…

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

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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

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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…

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