Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
CLARENCE DARROWThe difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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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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We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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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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No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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To think is to differ.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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