Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
CLARENCE DARROWWe’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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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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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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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 law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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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The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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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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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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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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