Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
CLARENCE DARROWMy constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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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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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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