Atheism Quotes by Clarence Darrow

9 Atheism quotes by Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow’s legal mind turns faith into a case to be examined, using logic and evidence. These nine excerpts reveal his persuasive, skeptical reasoning.

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A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

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“I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't believe in…

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Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

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An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

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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…

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“I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who…

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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…

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When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any…

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If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who…

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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.

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Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course.

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“One of the bravest, grandest champions of human liberty the world has ever seen. {Darrow on the great Robert Ingersoll }”

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I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and…

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“As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and if no man rebelled, those wrongs would…

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I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

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One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a…

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Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

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Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a…

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“ Robert G. Ingersoll was a great man. a wonderful intellect, a great soul of matchless courage, one of the great men of the…

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Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

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If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who is guided…

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