The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
CLARENCE DARROWThe law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
CLARENCE DARROWThe truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
CLARENCE DARROWI am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
CLARENCE DARROWCalvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
CLARENCE DARROWFor to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
CLARENCE DARROWEach child should be more intelligent than his parents.
CLARENCE DARROWWhenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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 DARROWIn spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
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 DARROWLaws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
CLARENCE DARROWThose who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
CLARENCE DARROWThe truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
CLARENCE DARROWI do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
CLARENCE DARROWI have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
CLARENCE DARROWJust think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
CLARENCE DARROW