Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
CLARENCE DARROWCan any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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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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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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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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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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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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