Quotes About Scopes Trial

#1. It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.

Abbie Hoffman

#2. I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.
[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.]

John T. Scopes

#3. I couldn't imagine I should find you. Why, I mighthave gone on all my life till I was inconceivably old - as old as your Papa - without ever finding you, or knowing even that you were anywhere that could be found

Elizabeth Anna Hart

#4. Peeps cure cancer!

Paul Acampora

#5. Scopes isn't on trial; civilization is on trial.

Clarence Darrow

#6. A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.

Jacob M. Appel

#7. In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#8. Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.

Nancy Pearcey

#9. I want to be a good role model for girls and show them they can do whatever they feel passionate about and still live a healthy life.

Miranda Kerr

#10. Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

Adam Hamilton

#11. I am not a saint; I am a sinner. I want to sin again and
again and again.

S. Jae-Jones

#12. 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.

Clarence Darrow

#13. My one quarrel is with words.

Oscar Wilde

#14. Q: But what do you think that the Bible, itself, says? Don't you know how it was arrived at?
A: I never made a calculation
Q: What do you think?
A: I do not think about things I don't think about.
Q: Do you think about things you do think about?
A: Well, sometimes.

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