QUOTES FROM INHERIT THE WIND

“It is the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”

“I have the right to think for myself and speak for myself.”

“The Bible is a book. It’s a good book, but it is not the only book.”

“In a free country, a teacher must be a prophet.”

“Fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding. And soon, your Honor, with banners flying and with drums beating we’ll be marching backward, backward, through the glorious ages of that Sixteenth Century when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind!”

“It’s not a crime to be wrong. But it is a crime to be right when the government is wrong.”

“I believe in the truth, even though it offends me.”

“You can’t shout down a thing. You can’t mount up evidence against it. You can’t condemn it or riducule it. You can’t blow it away.”

“The individual human mind. In a child’s power to master the multiplication table, there is more sanctity than in all your shouted ‘amens’ and ‘holy holies’ and ‘hosannas!’ An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man’s knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters.” “The people of Hillsboro elected me. But not to choose between God and the devil. Between heaven and hell.”

“Science is a search for what is. It’s not a search for what we’d like it to be.”

“Can this court send a man to jail because his studies have led him to disturb it?”

“I can only ask my questions. I cannot answer them for you.” END OF FOOTBALL SEASON QUOTES

“It’s the loneliest feeling in the world to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say, ‘What’s the matter with him?’”

“As long as the prerequisite for that shining paradise is ignorance, bigotry, persecution and hate, I say the hell with it.”

“A fanatic is always a good hater.”

“If there is a God, I will face Him, and tell Him, ‘I hate him.'”

“He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind.”

“I believe in the worth and dignity of human personality, and I will accept as fact that I am an organized, insoluble clash of two instincts.”

“The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the firstest thought.”

“You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.”

“We must believe in free will. We have no choice.”

“The Bible is the greatest and most moral book ever written.”

“Ignorance breeds fear, fear breeds hate, and hate breeds violence.”