You can only be free if I am free.
CLARENCE DARROWEverybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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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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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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To think is to differ.
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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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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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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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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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