I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
CLARENCE DARROWNone meet life honestly and few heroically.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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 really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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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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You can only be free if I am free.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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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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