I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
CLARENCE DARROWWe’re all killers at heart, I have never taken anybody’s life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
-
-
The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
CLARENCE DARROW -
The law is a horrible business.
CLARENCE DARROW -
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
CLARENCE DARROW -
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
CLARENCE DARROW -
The 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 DARROW -
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
CLARENCE DARROW -
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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 -
The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
CLARENCE DARROW -
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
CLARENCE DARROW -
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
CLARENCE DARROW -
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
CLARENCE DARROW -
The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
CLARENCE DARROW -
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
CLARENCE DARROW -
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
CLARENCE DARROW