Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
CLARENCE DARROWWe’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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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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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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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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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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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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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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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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