Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
CLARENCE DARROWTo think is to differ.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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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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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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The law is a horrible business.
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For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
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The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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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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I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
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It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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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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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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