257 Quotes by Clarence Darrow

You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

The love of nature comes with maturing years and is one of the few compensations for growing old.

I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person’s place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.

No law was ever made by the people; they are made for the people.

The true man neither guiltily conceals nor anxiously explains nor vulgarly parades.

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.

If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I only came through by a hair’s-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.

I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.

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