The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
CLARENCE DARROWNo nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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To think is to differ.
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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 do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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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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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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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.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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