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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Clarence Darrow

I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
CLARENCE DARROW

Myself Surprise Wrong
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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Action Emotion Government Human
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
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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Custom Ideas Law Old Ourselves Responsibility
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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Best Common Friendship Help Kind Passenger
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Laughter Lose Power Thinking Yourself
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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End Human Important Method Place Society
The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Black Freckle Man Truth White
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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Doubt Natural Opinion Part Strong World
The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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Children Confidence Difference Limitation Man Youth
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Freedom Liberty Man Myself Protection
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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Children Fit Live Mercy
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
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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Clothes Fit Law People Service
I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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Cruelty Myself Right Suspicious

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

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