I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
CLARENCE DARROWThose 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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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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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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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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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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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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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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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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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.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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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 really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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