The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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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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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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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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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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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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