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 DARROWWars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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It 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.
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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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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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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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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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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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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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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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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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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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