It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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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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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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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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