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| Clarence Darrow
". .. the only perfect pleasure we ever knew."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. Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals. Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one. 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. I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood. I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure. If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think. Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man. No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed. None meet life honestly and few heroically. Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away. 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. The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth. The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself. The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries. 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. There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil. There is no such thing as justice – in or out of court. To think is to differ. True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. |
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