Men Quotes by Clarence Darrow

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man.

— Clarence Darrow

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

— Clarence Darrow

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

— Clarence Darrow

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

— Clarence Darrow

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

— Clarence Darrow

The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.

— 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

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in…

— Clarence Darrow

Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must…

— Clarence Darrow

I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the…

— Clarence Darrow

If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I…

— 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 really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below…

— Clarence Darrow

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell.…

— Clarence Darrow

The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying;…

— Clarence Darrow

One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always…

— Clarence Darrow

Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various…

— Clarence Darrow

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the…

— 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

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

— Clarence Darrow

Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering,…

— Clarence Darrow

Criminal cases receive the attention of the press. The cruel and disagreeable things of life are more apt to get the newspaper…

— Clarence Darrow

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

Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

— Clarence Darrow

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

— Clarence Darrow

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

— Clarence Darrow

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

— Clarence Darrow

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

— Clarence Darrow

Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out…

— Clarence Darrow

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a…

— Clarence Darrow

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

— Clarence Darrow

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

— Clarence Darrow

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education…

— Clarence Darrow

I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man --…

— Clarence Darrow

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know…

— Clarence Darrow

To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still…

— Clarence Darrow

I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of…

— Clarence Darrow

No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law.…

— Clarence Darrow

There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime,…

— Clarence Darrow