Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
CLARENCE DARROWThose 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.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
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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.
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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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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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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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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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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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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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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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