Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
CLARENCE DARROWReligion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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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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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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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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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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