Quote

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

Clarence Darrow

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
Laughing
Happy
Religion
Makes
Doe
People
Gas
Atheism

More quotes by Clarence Darrow

Image
Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
Clarence Darrow
Image
Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
Clarence Darrow
Image
Chase after the truth like all hell.
Clarence Darrow
Image
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.
Clarence Darrow
Image
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
Clarence Darrow
Image
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
Clarence Darrow
Image
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.
Clarence Darrow
Image
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
Clarence Darrow
Image
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
Clarence Darrow
Image
It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
Clarence Darrow
Image
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
Clarence Darrow
Image
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
Clarence Darrow
Image
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
Clarence Darrow
Image
I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.
Clarence Darrow
Image
No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.
Clarence Darrow
Image
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow
Image
Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
Clarence Darrow
Image
The law is a horrible business.
Clarence Darrow
Image
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Clarence Darrow
Image
The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs
Clarence Darrow