Crime Quote by Clarence Darrow

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

— Thomas Paine

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and…

— Bertrand Russell

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.

— Thomas Paine

The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times were, Im…

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we…

— Marlon Brando

“Upon my word, just see how mortal men always put the blame on us gods! We are the source of evil, so they say…

— Homer

Nothing can be more contrary to nature, to reason, to religion, than cruelty; hence as inhuman man is generally considered as a monster; such…

— Charles Buck

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond…

— Homer

Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to delete us…

— Paul F. M. Zahl

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others,…

— Walter Winchell

We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to…

— Rigoberta Menchu

So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder