Any 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.
CLARENCE DARROWThe 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
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It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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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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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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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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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
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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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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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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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