The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
CLARENCE DARROWFreedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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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.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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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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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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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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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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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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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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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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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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