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Men Quotes by Clarence Darrow
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
- The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
- Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against…
- When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are…
- Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the…
- Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property…
- I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.
- Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man.
- If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
- With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.
- Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from,…
- If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make…
- The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak…
- In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
- The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
- I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
- I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
- I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant…
- You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
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