black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

Clarence Darrow

Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
CLARENCE DARROW

Poor Rich Trial
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
CLARENCE DARROW

Business Funny Honesty Law Pretend
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
CLARENCE DARROW

Blank Forever Home Live Man Prison
I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
CLARENCE DARROW

Afraid Devil God Man Universe Woman
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
CLARENCE DARROW

Greatness Idea Monument
Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
CLARENCE DARROW

Chase Freedom Hell Touch Truth Yourself
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
CLARENCE DARROW

Defect Exception Intelligence Reality
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
CLARENCE DARROW

Book Hope Myself Royal Writing
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
CLARENCE DARROW

Freedom Human Institution Law
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
CLARENCE DARROW

Beginning Believe Myself President
It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
CLARENCE DARROW

Oneself Origin Teaching Theory
Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
CLARENCE DARROW

Forget Jury Lost Win
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

End Human Important Method Place Society
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
CLARENCE DARROW

Himself Lying Need
The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
CLARENCE DARROW

Better Fight Himself Man
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

Defend Delusion Land Strong Weakness

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Clarence Darrow Quotes