An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
CLARENCE DARROWChase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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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 most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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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 purpose of life is to live it.
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