Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
CLARENCE DARROWIt must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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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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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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