257 Quotes by Clarence Darrow

One of the bravest, grandest champions of human liberty the world has ever seen.{Darrow on the great Robert Ingersoll}

[George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.

Your book, 'The Tyranny of God,' is well done. It is a very clear statement of the question, bold and true beyond dispute. I am glad that you wrote it. It is as plain as the multiplication table, which doesn't mean that everyone will believe it. I thank you for writing it. I wish I were the author.{Preface to 'The Tyranny of God by Joseph Lewis}

If every man who passed an unjust judgment on his fellow should be condemned, how many judges would be found so vain and foolish as to review and condemn their Maker’s work?

There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.

We are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted fagots to burn men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind.

The first great cause of crime is poverty, and we will never cure crime until we get rid of poverty.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.