An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
CLARENCE DARROWIf there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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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 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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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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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 and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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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