I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
CLARENCE DARROWThe best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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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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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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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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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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