There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
CLARENCE DARROWIf there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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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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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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