Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
CLARENCE DARROWAn agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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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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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.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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