"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 possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."
Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer known for major criminal defense and civil liberties cases. He became especially famous for representing John T. Scopes in the Scopes trial. His career made him one of the most prominent courtroom advocates of his era.