I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
CLARENCE DARROWAs long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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.
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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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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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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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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Life 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.
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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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You can only be free if I am free.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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