257 Quotes by Clarence Darrow

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

I go to a better tailor than any of you and pay more for my clothes. The only difference is that you probably don't sleep in yours.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.