257 Quotes by Clarence Darrow

Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Lawyers are natural politicians.

Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?

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

It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of an ancient and barbarous world in our dealing with crime. So long as this is observed and exercised there can be no change except to heap more cruelties and more wretchedness upon those who are the victims of our foolish system.

Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.

The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.

Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.