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.
CLARENCE DARROWCalvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.
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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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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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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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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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
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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 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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