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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no ma

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. – Clarence Darrow

Other quotes by Clarence Darrow

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means. – Clarence Darrow

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Men
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Clarence Darrow
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business. – Clarence Darrow

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Business
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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

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Faith
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. – Louis D. Brandeis

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It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience. – Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911

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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. – Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation, 1775

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Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. – Chinese Proverb

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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. – Woodrow Wilson

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The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. – Avicenna

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I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldnt call it fear, but its an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. Im able to do that. – Mary Tyler Moore

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In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon

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