Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
CLARENCE DARROWEugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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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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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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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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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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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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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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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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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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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 man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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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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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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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