I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
CLARENCE DARROWI 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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.
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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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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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I 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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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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