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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.

Clarence Darrow

If 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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Better Education Human Improvement Man Social
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Exploration Opportunity Run Simplicity Time
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
CLARENCE DARROW

Modern Safety Time Truth Voice
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

Compliment Ignorance Insult Man Myself Pretend
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Bad Cruelty Fear Goodness Himself People Punishment
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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Ignorance Man Myself Pretend
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
CLARENCE DARROW

Action Emotion Government Human
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 such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
CLARENCE DARROW

Afraid Devil God Man Universe Woman
Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
CLARENCE DARROW

Belief Future God Life Myself Religion
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

Coward Discover Easy Ideas Immortal Life Origin
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
CLARENCE DARROW

Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source
You can only be free if I am free.
CLARENCE DARROW

Freedom Myself One Liner
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
CLARENCE DARROW

Children Fit Live Mercy
I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
CLARENCE DARROW

Myself Surprise Wrong
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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History Oneself Repeat
I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
CLARENCE DARROW

Battle Fight Life Live Myself Oppression Poor Power Weakness

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