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
Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human… — 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
In this dilemma they evolved the theory of natural rights. If 'natural rights' means anything it means that the individual rights are… — 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
The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now… — 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
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
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 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
Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole… — 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
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
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 Image
Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“One of the bravest, grandest champions of human liberty the world has ever seen. {Darrow on the great Robert Ingersoll }” — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. — 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 told a… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance. — 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 by a… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“ 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 Image
