An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
CLARENCE DARROWGreat wealth often curses all who touch it.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
-
-
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
CLARENCE DARROW -
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
CLARENCE DARROW -
No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
CLARENCE DARROW -
If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
CLARENCE DARROW -
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
CLARENCE DARROW -
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
CLARENCE DARROW -
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 -
The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
CLARENCE DARROW -
In 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 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 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 -
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 -
The purpose of life is to live it.
CLARENCE DARROW -
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
CLARENCE DARROW -
Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
CLARENCE DARROW