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
To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime,… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law.… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. From him who will not… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Religion is based on the insistence that over and above all is a purpose and a guiding hand that is beneficent and… — 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. They have… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
It may never come, but I fancy than no man who has sympathy for the human race does not wish that sometime… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from… — 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
