In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
CLARENCE DARROWIt is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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The law is a horrible business.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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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 am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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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 difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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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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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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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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