We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
CLARENCE DARROWI have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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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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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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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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