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
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
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
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man. — 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
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction. — 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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… — 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
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
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
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
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself. — 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
