The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
CLARENCE DARROWI am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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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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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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You can only be free if I am free.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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