Clarence DarrowYou can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.351Humanity
Clarence DarrowScopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial. ✨ Richard J. Jensen, Clarence Darrow (1992). Clarence Darrow: The Creation of an American Myth, Greenwood Publishing Group352Humanity
Clarence DarrowIt is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.375Philosophy
Clarence DarrowWorking people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.375Humanity
Clarence DarrowI am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and … ▶332HopeLifeLove
Clarence DarrowI 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. <… ▶376Reflection
Clarence DarrowThere is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil. ✨ Clarence Darrow (1974). A Persian pearl, and other essays377Truth
Clarence DarrowNone meet life honestly and few heroically. ✨ Infidels and Heretics: An Agnostic's Anthology. Book by Clarence Darrow and Wallace Rice, 1929.366LifeReadingTruth
Clarence DarrowThe fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth ✨ Clarence Darrow (2015). The Story of My Life, p.388, Lulu.com334HopeLifeTime
Clarence DarrowLost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.378Love
Clarence DarrowDifferent strokes for different folks.368Time
Clarence DarrowEvery one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which we call [physical] law. ... No one attribute… ▶302DeathPolitics
Clarence DarrowSympathy is the child of imagination ✨ Clarence Darrow (2015). The Story of My Life, p.60, Lulu.com324Life
Clarence DarrowEverybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.379ReadingTruth
Clarence DarrowIf a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.313Reflection
Clarence DarrowIn 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.325DeathTruth
Clarence DarrowI am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.314Humanity
Clarence DarrowThere is no such thing as justice - in or out of court. ✨ Quoted in N.Y. Times, 19 Apr. 1936347Time
Clarence DarrowYou can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. ✨ Clarence Darrow (2012). Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom,… ▶358Philosophy
Clarence DarrowTrue patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.347Truth
Clarence DarrowIf you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.315HumorPoliticsThought
Clarence DarrowThe world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.315Humor
Clarence DarrowI am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.337Time
Clarence DarrowIn order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.349Humor
Clarence DarrowJust think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.316Thought
Clarence DarrowI have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do that - but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have … ▶272LifePolitics
Clarence DarrowThe first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.272Hope
Clarence DarrowLiberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. ✨ Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom.294Thought
Clarence DarrowThe purpose of life is to live it.295Life
Clarence DarrowChloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.251Reflection
