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.
CLARENCE DARROWFreedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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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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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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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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