I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
CLARENCE DARROWI do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
CLARENCE DARROWThe only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
CLARENCE DARROWIn order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
CLARENCE DARROWThe objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
CLARENCE DARROWInside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
CLARENCE DARROWNone meet life honestly and few heroically.
CLARENCE DARROWEducation was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
CLARENCE DARROWThe man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
CLARENCE DARROWThere are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
CLARENCE DARROWThe first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
CLARENCE DARROWYou can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
CLARENCE DARROWEverybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
CLARENCE DARROWWorking people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
CLARENCE DARROWLife is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
CLARENCE DARROWEugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
CLARENCE DARROWThe truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
CLARENCE DARROW