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No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
— Clarence Darrow
I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.
— Clarence Darrow
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.
— Clarence Darrow
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.
— Clarence Darrow
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
— Clarence Darrow
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
— Clarence Darrow
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
— Clarence Darrow
Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course.
— Clarence Darrow
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
— Clarence Darrow
Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
— Clarence Darrow
It does not make much difference what kind of a law we make as long as the judges tell us what it means.
— Clarence Darrow
Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.
— Clarence Darrow
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.
— Clarence Darrow
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
— Clarence Darrow
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
— Clarence Darrow
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
— Clarence Darrow
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
— Clarence Darrow
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
— Clarence Darrow
Scopes isn't on trial; civilization is on trial.
— Clarence Darrow
No law was ever made by the people; they are made for the people
— Clarence Darrow
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
— Clarence Darrow
A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.
— Clarence Darrow
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
— Clarence Darrow
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
— Clarence Darrow
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— Clarence Darrow
You can only be free if I am free.
— Clarence Darrow
The purpose of life is to live it.
— Clarence Darrow
The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
— Clarence Darrow
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
— Clarence Darrow
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
— Clarence Darrow
We're all killers at heart ... I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
— Clarence Darrow
Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
— Clarence Darrow
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
— Clarence Darrow
Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.
— Clarence Darrow
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.
— Clarence Darrow
Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
— Clarence Darrow
The trouble with law is lawyers.
— Clarence Darrow
Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.
— Clarence Darrow
The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
— Clarence Darrow
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
— Clarence Darrow
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man public opinion. — Clarence Darrow
This play is dedicated to the memory of Clarence Darrow, The Great Defender, whose mental frontiers were the four corners of the sky.
— Tennessee Williams
Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
— Clarence Darrow
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
— Clarence Darrow
The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
— Clarence Darrow
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
— Clarence Darrow
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man.
— Clarence Darrow
The law is a horrible business.
— Clarence Darrow
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.
— Clarence Darrow
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
— Clarence Darrow
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.
— Clarence Darrow
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.
— Clarence Darrow
The true man neither guiltily conceals nor anxiously explains nor vulgarly parades.
— Clarence Darrow
In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
— Clarence Darrow
I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
— Clarence Darrow
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
— Clarence Darrow
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.
— Clarence Darrow
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
— Clarence Darrow
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
— Clarence Darrow
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.— Clarence Darrow
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
— Clarence Darrow
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.
— Clarence Darrow
Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
— Clarence Darrow
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
— Clarence Darrow
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.
— Clarence Darrow
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
— Clarence Darrow
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
— Clarence Darrow
An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
— Clarence Darrow
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
— Clarence Darrow
People in this world are not often logical.
— Clarence Darrow
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
— Clarence Darrow
Sympathy is the child of imagination
— Clarence Darrow
To know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgement and condemnation.
— Clarence Darrow
The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
— Clarence Darrow
I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.
— Clarence Darrow
I am sure of very little, and I shouldn't be surprised if those things were wrong.
— Clarence Darrow
No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
— Clarence Darrow
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.
— Clarence Darrow
Lawyers are natural politicians.
— Clarence Darrow
I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
— Clarence Darrow
Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
— Clarence Darrow
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it - religious fanaticism.
— Clarence Darrow
Money has been the most serious handicap that we have ever met. There are times when poverty is fortunate
— Clarence Darrow
I am an agnostic as to the question of God.
— Clarence Darrow
