All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
CLARENCE DARROWI 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.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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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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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.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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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.
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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.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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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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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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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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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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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