To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
CLARENCE DARROWTo think is to differ.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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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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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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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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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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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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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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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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