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
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
“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
Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these… — 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
Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach humanity our proper relation to the environment where… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life. — 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
“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.” — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction. — 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
I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which… — 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
Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often… — 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
