I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
CLARENCE DARROWEach child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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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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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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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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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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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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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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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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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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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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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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