Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
CLARENCE DARROWLife is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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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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You can only be free if I am free.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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