Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
CLARENCE DARROWThe trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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.
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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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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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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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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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.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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