Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
CLARENCE DARROWWhenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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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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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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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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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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