I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
CLARENCE DARROWI have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
CLARENCE DARROWI have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
CLARENCE DARROWI am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
CLARENCE DARROWScopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
CLARENCE DARROWJust think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
CLARENCE DARROWWorking people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
CLARENCE DARROWThe origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
CLARENCE DARROWWe are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
CLARENCE DARROWThe law is a horrible business.
CLARENCE DARROWAutobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
CLARENCE DARROWMen have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
CLARENCE DARROWThe purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
CLARENCE DARROWThere is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
CLARENCE DARROWIt is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
CLARENCE DARROWThe most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
CLARENCE DARROWLost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
CLARENCE DARROW