Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
CLARENCE DARROWI am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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 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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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.
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Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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To think is to differ.
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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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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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