The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
CLARENCE DARROWThe world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
CLARENCE DARROWIt is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
CLARENCE DARROWThe difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
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 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 DARROWIn order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
CLARENCE DARROWGreat wealth often curses all who touch it.
CLARENCE DARROWThere is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
CLARENCE DARROWWe are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
CLARENCE DARROWI have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
CLARENCE DARROWSomeday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
CLARENCE DARROWJustice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
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 DARROWI am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
CLARENCE DARROWLife is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
CLARENCE DARROWI had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
CLARENCE DARROW