Scopes Isn’t On Trial; Civilization Is On

All Men Have An Emotion To Kill; When They Strongly Dislike Someone They Involuntarily Wish He Was Dead. I Have Never Killed Any One, But I Have Read Some Obituary Notices With Great Satisfaction.

Every Thought Of Pity Is Like The Balm Of Gilead To Our Souls.

We Are Turning Our Prisons Into Living Tombs, Inhabited By Doomed Men Living In Everlasting Blank Despair.

I Am An Agnostic As To The Question Of God.

Many Writers Claim That Nearly All Crime Is Caused By Economic Conditions, Or In Other Words That Poverty Is Practically The Whole Cause Of Crime. Endless Statistics Have Been Gathered On This Subject Which Seem To Show Conclusively That Property Crimes Are Largely The Result Of The Unequal Distribution Of Wealth. But Crime Of Any Class Cannot Be Safely Ascribed To A Single Cause. Life Is Too Complex, Heredity Is Too Variant And Imperfect, Too Many Separate Things Contribute To Human Behavior, To Make It Possible To Trace All Actions To A Single Cause.