Clarence Darrow Quotes
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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 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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Sympathy is the child of imagination
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.
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Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
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We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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People in this world are not often logical.
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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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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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Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
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Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.
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...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were doomed to hell? Can anyone with intelligence really believe that a child born today should be doomed because the snake tempted Eve and Eve tempted Adam? To believe that is not God-worship; it is devil-worship.
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In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
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The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
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The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now take human life; and when that time comes, the way will be clear to device some better method of dealing with poverty and ignorance and their frequent byproducts, which we call crime.
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There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
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