Clarence Darrow Quotes - Page 3

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• The purpose of life is to live it.

  Clarence Darrow

  Purpose, Life Is, Purpose Of Life

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• ...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were doomed to hell? Can anyone with intelligence really believe that a child born today should be doomed because the snake tempted Eve and Eve tempted Adam? To believe that is not God-worship; it is devil-worship.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Fear, Believe

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• 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.

  Clarence Darrow

  Life, Order, Vivid Imagination

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.38, Lulu.com

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• Great wealth often curses all who touch it.

  Clarence Darrow

  Wealth, Curse

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.68, University of Chicago Press

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• Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Sarcastic, Communication

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• I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

  Clarence Darrow

  Government, Misunderstood, Hell

  As quoted in "Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do" by Peter McWilliams, from 2000 Years of Disbelief (1996) edited by James A Haught, p. 817,

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• Men 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 Darrow

  Mean, Fighting, Men

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.83, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Chase after the truth like all hell.

  Clarence Darrow

  Truth, Honesty, Catching Fire

  The Sign Magazine, May 1938.

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• The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

  Clarence Darrow

  Voice, Giving, Safe

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is any way to soften this human heart which is hard enough at its best, if there is any way to kill evil and hatred and all that goes with it, it is not through evil and hatred and cruelty; it is through charity, and love, and understanding?

  Clarence Darrow

  Heart, Evil, Hatred

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.52, University of Chicago Press

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• There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment.

  Clarence Darrow

  Two, Contentment, Genius

  "Voltaire". Essay by Clarence Darrow, 1916.

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• Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Intelligent, Parent

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• You can only be free if I am free.

  Clarence Darrow

  Freedom, Liberty, Libertarian

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.140, University of Chicago Press

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• The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

  Clarence Darrow

  Way, Best Way

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.34, University of Chicago Press

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• There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

  Clarence Darrow

  Revenge, Law Courts, Justice

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 19 Apr. 1936

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• Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

  Clarence Darrow

  Education, Religious, Danger

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.175, University of Chicago Press

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• 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.

  Clarence Darrow

  Ignorance, Light, Views

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• Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

  Clarence Darrow

  Jealous, Men, Soul

  "Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom".

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• Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

  Clarence Darrow

  Action, Emotion, Instinct

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.

  Clarence Darrow

  Trials, Rich, Poor

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• Different strokes for different folks.

  Clarence Darrow

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Different

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• I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

  Clarence Darrow

  Inspirational, Life, Ignorance

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• Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

  Clarence Darrow

  People, Laughing, Religion

  Clarence Darrow's remarks at a debate with religious leaders in Kansas City, as quoted in a Emanuel Haldeman-Julius' eulogy for Clarence Darrow, 1938.

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• The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.

  Clarence Darrow

  Brain, Littles, Truth Is

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.

  Clarence Darrow

  Philosophy, Years, Long

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.14, Lulu.com

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