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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs
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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I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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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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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
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Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
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I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.
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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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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.
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There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
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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.
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The purpose of life is to live it.
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No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
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