257 Quotes by Clarence Darrow

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

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.

People in this world are not often logical.

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.

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.

We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.