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Man Quotes by Clarence Darrow
- I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were…
- As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
- Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. From him who will not give her all,…
- 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…
- I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
- The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
- Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against…
- Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the…
- I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.
- Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man.
- If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
- The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak…
- In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
- I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
- You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
- Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
- The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang…
- I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we…
- Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one…
- 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]…
- You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle