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 DARROWChase after the truth like all hell.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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The law is a horrible business.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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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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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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