Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
CLARENCE DARROWTo 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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To think is to differ.
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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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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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