No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
CLARENCE DARROWAll men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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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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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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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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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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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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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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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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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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