I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Now, your Honor, I have spoken about the war. I believed in it. I don’t know whether I was crazy or not.… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
“One of the bravest, grandest champions of human liberty the world has ever seen. {Darrow on the great Robert Ingersoll }” — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
“As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and if no man rebelled, those wrongs would… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
“ Robert G. Ingersoll was a great man. a wonderful intellect, a great soul of matchless courage, one of the great men of the… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who is guided… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share
