Clarence Darrow Quotes
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Clarence Darrow Famous Quotes & Sayings
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach humanity our proper relation to the environment where we must live.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course.
I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
It does not make much difference what kind of a law we make as long as the judges tell us what it means.
I go to a better tailor than any of you and pay more for my clothes. The only difference is that you probably don't sleep in yours.
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.
In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't believe in God as I don't believe in Mother Goose.
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and if no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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.
Money has been the most serious handicap that we have ever met. There are times when poverty is fortunate
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.
Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man
public opinion.
public opinion.
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.