I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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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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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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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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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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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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 difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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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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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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We’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
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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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