Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
CLARENCE DARROWAs long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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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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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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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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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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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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You can only be free if I am free.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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The law is a horrible business.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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