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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

Clarence Darrow

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
CLARENCE DARROW

Coward Discover Easy Ideas Immortal Life Origin
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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Justice Politics Room
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Bad Cruelty Fear Goodness Himself People Punishment
The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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Accomplishment Nation Path People Tax Willing Wrong
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Correct Learning Speak Talk Yourself
I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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Myself Surprise Wrong
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Happiness Himself Man Wrong
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Hero Honesty Life
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Children Doubt Thinking Tragedy
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Earth Existence Feeling Himself Home Man
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.
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Crime Evil God Goodness Human Race Sin
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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Death Himself Man Purpose
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
CLARENCE DARROW

Law Poet Wreck
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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Forever Object Rebel World Wrong
Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Belief Future God Life Myself Religion
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source

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