I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
CLARENCE DARROWLife is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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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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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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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 tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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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.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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