Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
CLARENCE DARROWMost jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
CLARENCE DARROWIt’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
CLARENCE DARROWEach child should be more intelligent than his parents.
CLARENCE DARROWYou 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 DARROWI never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
CLARENCE DARROWThe law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
CLARENCE DARROWThe trouble with law is lawyers.
CLARENCE DARROWEugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
CLARENCE DARROWThere are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
CLARENCE DARROWI have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
CLARENCE DARROWReligion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
CLARENCE DARROWThe 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 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 DARROWHistory repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
CLARENCE DARROWWhenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
CLARENCE DARROWThe difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
CLARENCE DARROW