I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
CLARENCE DARROWIf you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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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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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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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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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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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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