Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell.… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying;… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering,… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Criminal cases receive the attention of the press. The cruel and disagreeable things of life are more apt to get the newspaper… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man --… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born. — 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… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The consideration and kindness shown by unfortunates to each other are surprising to those who have no experience with this class of… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his… — 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
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