Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
CLARENCE DARROWHistory repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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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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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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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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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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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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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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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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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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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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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Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
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I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
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Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
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