No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
CLARENCE DARROWThe purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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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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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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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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The law is a horrible business.
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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.
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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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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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My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
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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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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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