Clarence Darrow Quotes

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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…
• I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
• History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
• Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
• 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.…
• As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
• Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. From him who will not give her all,…
• In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in…
• ...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…
• Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
• The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his…
• Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is any way to…
• 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;…
• In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
• The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
• Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach humanity our proper relation to the environment where we must live.
• I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
• Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
• Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
• The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

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