Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
CLARENCE DARROWThere is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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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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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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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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