Clarence Darrow

The law is a horrible business.

— Clarence Darrow

The purpose of life is to live it.

— Clarence Darrow

Lawyers are natural politicians.

— Clarence Darrow

Chase after the truth like all hell.

— Clarence Darrow

You can only be free if I am free.

— Clarence Darrow

It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.

— Clarence Darrow

Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.

— Clarence Darrow

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

— Clarence Darrow

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

— Clarence Darrow

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

— Clarence Darrow

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

— Clarence Darrow

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

— Clarence Darrow

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

— Clarence Darrow

It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is…

— Clarence Darrow

You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing…

— Clarence Darrow

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

— Clarence Darrow

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of…

— Clarence Darrow

The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

— 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

“Money has been the most serious handicap that we have ever met. There are times when poverty is fortunate”

— Clarence Darrow

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

— Clarence Darrow

The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous…

— Clarence Darrow

The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with…

— Clarence Darrow

In this dilemma they evolved the theory of natural rights. If 'natural rights' means anything it means that the individual rights are…

— Clarence Darrow

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to…

— Clarence Darrow

“this is life and all there is of life; to play the game, to play the cards we get; play them uncomplainingly…

— Clarence Darrow

“All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never…

— Clarence Darrow

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to…

— Clarence Darrow

“I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who…

— Clarence Darrow

Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole…

— Clarence Darrow

If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who…

— Clarence Darrow

Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which…

— Clarence Darrow

It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the…

— Clarence Darrow

If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow…

— Clarence Darrow

“With the land and possession of America rapidly passing into the hands of a favored few; with great corporations taking the place…

— Clarence Darrow

We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which…

— Clarence Darrow

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would…

— Clarence Darrow

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

— Clarence Darrow

Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.

— Clarence Darrow

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

— Clarence Darrow