Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
CLARENCE DARROWWhenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
CLARENCE DARROWLaws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
CLARENCE DARROWAn idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
CLARENCE DARROWReligion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
CLARENCE DARROWInside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
CLARENCE DARROWPhysical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
CLARENCE DARROWJustice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
CLARENCE DARROWEven if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
CLARENCE DARROWIf you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
CLARENCE DARROWHuman action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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 DARROWIf 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 DARROWThere is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
CLARENCE DARROWThe difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.
CLARENCE DARROWTrue patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
CLARENCE DARROWI have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
CLARENCE DARROW