My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
CLARENCE DARROWIn order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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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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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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