Top 56 Clarence S Darrow Quotes
#1. There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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#2. I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
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#4. Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
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#5. If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.
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#7. The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and
unwilling serfs
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#8. A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.
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#9. I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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#11. Money has been the most serious handicap that we have ever met. There are times when poverty is fortunate
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#12. Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.
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#13. The 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.
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#15. Henry Lloyd was with Darrow when they toured the mine. It was a dreadful experience, Lloyd said, "like a foretaste of the inferno."
"You might as well get used to it," Darrow told him. Heaven was reserved for Wall Street financiers. Infidels like themselves would be rooming with Satan.
John A. Farrell
#16. Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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#17. I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man
public opinion.
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#18. History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
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#19. History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
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#20. You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
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#21. We're all killers at heart ... I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
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#22. Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.
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#23. It's not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
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#24. I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.
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#25. If every man who passed an unjust judgment on his fellow should be condemned, how many judges would be found so vain and foolish as to review and condemn their Maker's work?
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#26. Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.
Jill Lepore
#27. This play is dedicated to the memory of Clarence Darrow, The Great Defender, whose mental frontiers were the four corners of the sky.
Tennessee Williams
#28. Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
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#29. Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
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#30. The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan.
H.L. Mencken
#31. The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
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#33. To know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgement and condemnation.
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#34. Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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#35. Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
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#37. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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#39. I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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#40. I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.
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#41. Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.
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#42. Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.
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#43. The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now take human life; and when that time comes, the way will be clear to device some better method of dealing with poverty and ignorance and their frequent byproducts, which we call crime.
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#44. It is not for the world to judge, but to crown them all alike. Each and all lived out their own being, did their work in their own way, and carried a reluctant, stupid humanity to greater
possibilities and grander heights.
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#45. I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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#46. No man is a good citizen, a good neighbor, a good friend, or a good man just because he obeys the law. The intrinsic worth is determined mainly by the intrinsic make-up.
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#47. No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
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#48. I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. 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.
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#49. I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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#50. The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth
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#51. It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
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#52. It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
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#53. The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.
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#54. Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.
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#55. I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.
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#56. Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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