Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
CLARENCE DARROWI have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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