Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
CLARENCE DARROWAny 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.
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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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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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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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The law is a horrible business.
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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You can only be free if I am free.
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The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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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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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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