Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
CLARENCE DARROWWars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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To think is to differ.
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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.
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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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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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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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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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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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