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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 such a being, he would not be a god he would be a devil.
Clarence Darrow
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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
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None meet life honestly and few heroically.
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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 tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.
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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
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Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
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You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
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No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
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Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
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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 that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
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