257 Quotes by Clarence Darrow

The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach humanity our proper relation to the environment where we must live.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

I am sure of very little, and I shouldn't be surprised if those things were wrong.

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

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.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

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.