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.
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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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
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To think is to differ.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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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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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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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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The law is a horrible business.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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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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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
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A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
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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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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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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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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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Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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