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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

Clarence Darrow

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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Better Education Human Improvement Man Social
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Modern Safety Time Truth Voice
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Kill Myself Notice Reading Satisfaction
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Offense Oppression Severe Visit
In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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Enough Freedom Necessary Order
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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Doubt Natural Opinion Part Strong World
The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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Beginning Death Fear God Investigation Study Wisdom
No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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Citizenship Determination Goodness Law Man Worth
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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Crime Evil God Goodness Human Race Sin
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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Close Important Life Man Wonderful
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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Defect Exception Intelligence Reality
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Freedom Human Institution Law
A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Capital Cooperation Criminal
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Children Live Ourselves Parents Ruin
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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Compliment Ignorance Insult Man Myself Pretend
The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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Death Himself Man Purpose

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