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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Clarence Darrow

I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Myself Surprise Wrong
Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Belief Future God Life Myself Religion
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
CLARENCE DARROW

Custom Ideas Law Old Ourselves Responsibility
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
CLARENCE DARROW

Hell Myself Suffering Understand
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
CLARENCE DARROW

Happiness Laughter People Religion Yourself
The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
CLARENCE DARROW

Brain Creation Money Truth
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Himself Lying Need
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
CLARENCE DARROW

Constitution Laws Myself
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
CLARENCE DARROW

Love Obedience Subject
An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
CLARENCE DARROW

Doubt Doubtful Faith Religious
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Believe Document Human Personal
We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
CLARENCE DARROW

Heart Kill Life Notice Satisfaction
The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Black Freckle Man Truth White
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Bad Cruelty Fear Goodness Himself People Punishment
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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Freedom Human Institution Law
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Crime Evil God Goodness Human Race Sin

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

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