The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
CLARENCE DARROWI am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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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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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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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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Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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 have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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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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Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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