As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
CLARENCE DARROWAs long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
CLARENCE DARROWWe know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
CLARENCE DARROWEach child should be more intelligent than his parents.
CLARENCE DARROWEverybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
CLARENCE DARROWInstead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
CLARENCE DARROWI do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
CLARENCE DARROWWorking people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
CLARENCE DARROWThere are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
CLARENCE DARROWTo say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess.
CLARENCE DARROWI don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
CLARENCE DARROWChloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
CLARENCE DARROWAn agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.
CLARENCE DARROWThe really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
CLARENCE DARROWIf a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
CLARENCE DARROWI have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
CLARENCE DARROWMy constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
CLARENCE DARROW