Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
CLARENCE DARROWThere is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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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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The purpose of life is to live it.
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To think is to differ.
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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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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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