257 Quotes by Clarence Darrow

Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails.

I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.

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

To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person – few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts; but, without sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought – even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.

Cheating, having ‘hoes,’ none of that is cute. To be honest, it’s really immature. I don’t see how people take pride in breaking someone’s heart. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.