True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
CLARENCE DARROWThe purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
-
-
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
CLARENCE DARROW -
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
CLARENCE DARROW -
I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
CLARENCE DARROW -
A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
CLARENCE DARROW -
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
CLARENCE DARROW -
It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
CLARENCE DARROW -
All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
CLARENCE DARROW -
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
CLARENCE DARROW -
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
CLARENCE DARROW -
Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
CLARENCE DARROW -
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
CLARENCE DARROW -
The law is a horrible business.
CLARENCE DARROW -
Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
CLARENCE DARROW -
You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
CLARENCE DARROW -
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
CLARENCE DARROW