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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.

Clarence Darrow

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Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
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Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
Government
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Violence
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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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Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
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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 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.
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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
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Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
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