I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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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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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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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 fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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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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