To think is to differ.
CLARENCE DARROWI 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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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 always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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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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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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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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You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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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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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
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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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