Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
CLARENCE DARROWAnyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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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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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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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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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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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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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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 am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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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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To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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The law is a horrible business.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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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 man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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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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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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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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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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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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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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