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Clarence Darrow
American
Lawyer
About the author
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 personal immortality.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#God
#Support
#Reason
#Belief
#Men
#Fact
#Immortality
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#History
#Wrong
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Teaching
#Children
#Tragedy
#Doubt
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Men
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Power
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Man
#Wrong
#America
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Pleasure
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Being
#Hell
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Man
#Pleasure
I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Hate
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#People
#Work
#Habits
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Lawyers
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Help
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Fighting
#Worth
#Causes
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Life
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#People
#Religion
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Hope
#Will
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.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Friends
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Children
#First
#Parents
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Law
#Business
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Life
#Hope
#Fear
#Idea
#Faith
#Cowardice
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Will
#Truth
#Pursuit
The trouble with law is lawyers.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Trouble
#Law
#Lawyers
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#World
#Opinions
There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Justice
#Court
To think is to differ.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Land
#Patriotism
#Injustice
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#World
#Freedom
#Man
You can only be free if I am free.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#People
#Clothes
#Laws
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#President
#Beginning
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Men
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.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Will
#World
#Man
#Wrongs
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Hell
#Truth
Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#People
#May
#Church
#Funerals
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#English
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Man
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Man
#Friend
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Nothing
#Justice
I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#God
#Mother
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 men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
Clarence Darrow,
American
Lawyer
#Insult
#Men
#Compliment