I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
CLARENCE DARROWLaws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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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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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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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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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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