In honor of the man himself and the article that I wrote, "Clarence Darrow the non-Fence Sitting Agnostic," that is currently number one in the Top Ten at the A/A site even though it no longer exists (talk about miracles!), below are some of my favorite quotes (some that appeared previously in RT while it was just evolving) from that illustrious defense attorney of the Scopes ("Monkey") trial fame:

"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."

Do you think in the above quote that Darrow was just talking about theists or also about atheists?

"Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for."

"I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose."

"To think is to differ."

."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."

"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."

"Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas."

"History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history."









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