The law is a horrible business.
CLARENCE DARROWThe law is a horrible business.
CLARENCE DARROWThere are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
CLARENCE DARROWAutobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
CLARENCE DARROWThere is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
CLARENCE DARROWAny one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
CLARENCE DARROWSomeday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
CLARENCE DARROWI am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
CLARENCE DARROWWorking people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
CLARENCE DARROWI have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
CLARENCE DARROWAnyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
CLARENCE DARROWThe difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
CLARENCE DARROWYou can only be free if I am free.
CLARENCE DARROWIn life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.
CLARENCE DARROWI do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
CLARENCE DARROWI am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
CLARENCE DARROWI have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
CLARENCE DARROW