I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
CLARENCE DARROWI am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
CLARENCE DARROWEven if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
CLARENCE DARROWLaws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
CLARENCE DARROWLiberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
CLARENCE DARROWWhenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
CLARENCE DARROWFor to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
CLARENCE DARROWEducation was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
CLARENCE DARROWI knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
CLARENCE DARROWThe truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
CLARENCE DARROWThere is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
CLARENCE DARROWAll 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 DARROWThe 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 DARROWThe trouble with law is lawyers.
CLARENCE DARROWI have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
CLARENCE DARROWWe know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
CLARENCE DARROWThe fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
CLARENCE DARROW