Clarence Darrow Quotes - Page 7

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• 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.

  Clarence Darrow

  Hate, Humorous, Food

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• 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.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Dying, Purpose

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• Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Desire, Wish

  "The Story of My Life". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1932.

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• Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.

  Clarence Darrow

  Responsibility, Men, Law

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.30, The Floating Press

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• 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.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Opportunity, Too Much

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.59, University of Chicago Press

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• The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Thinking, Land

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.128, University of Chicago Press

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• The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.

  Clarence Darrow

  Real, Doors, Office

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• If 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 Darrow

  Men, Order, Social

  Clarence Darrow, S. T. Joshi (2005). “Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society”, p.97, Ohio University Press

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• Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

  Clarence Darrow

  War, Men, Effort

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.220, Lulu.com

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• The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

  Clarence Darrow

  Life, Men, Purpose

  "Infidels and Heretics: An Agnostic's Anthology". Book by Clarence Darrow and Wallace Rice, 1929.

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• I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

  Clarence Darrow

  Mother, Atheist, Believe

  Speech, Toronto, Canada, 1930

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• Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

  Clarence Darrow

  Religious, Criminals, Doctrine

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.

  Clarence Darrow

  Strong, Believe, Independent

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.205, The Floating Press

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• Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Believe, Emotional

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• The law is a horrible business.

  Clarence Darrow

  Business, Law, Horrible

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• I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.

  Clarence Darrow

  Lonely, Tired, Men

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.233, Lulu.com

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• Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.

  Clarence Darrow

  Soul, Pity

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• The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his fellow men. In youth he may have learned the command, 'Thou shalt not kill,' but the ruler takes the boy just as he enters manhood and teaches him that his highest duty is to shoot a bullet through his neighbor's heart - and this, unmoved by passion or feeling or hatred, and without the least regard to right or wrong, but simply because his ruler gives the word.

  Clarence Darrow

  War, Heart, Passion

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• Sympathy is the child of imagination

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Imagination

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.60, Lulu.com

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• 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.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Home, Thinking

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

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• If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who is guided by his reason possibly imagine a soul independent of a body, or the place of its residence, or the character of it, or anything concerning it? If man is justified in any belief or disbelief on any subject, he is warranted in the disbelief in a soul. Not one scrap of evidence exists to prove any such impossible thing.

  Clarence Darrow

  Character, Independent, Men

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

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• 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

  Clarence Darrow

  War, Building Up, People

  "Resist Not Evil". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1904.

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• Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Law, Two

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.

  Clarence Darrow

  Criticism

  "Voltaire". Essay by Clarence Darrow, 1916.

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