The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
Clarence DarrowIt’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
Clarence DarrowAs 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 DarrowCan any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from, and about when they were written. We know that they were written by human beings who had no knowledge of science, little knowledge of life, and were influenced by the barbarous morality of primitive times, and were grossly ignorant of most things that men know today.
Clarence Darrow