Those 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.
CLARENCE DARROWThe 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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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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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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