Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Clarence Darrow
Age: 80 †
Born: 1857
Born: April 18
Died: 1938
Died: March 13
Lawyer
Writer
Clarence Seward Darrow
Clarence S. Darrow
Good
Crime
Delusions
Men
Race
Unkind
Like
Free
Myths
Evil
Cruel
Human
Delusion
Humans
Myth
Made
Excuse
Damning
Make
Sin
Barbarous
More quotes by Clarence Darrow
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
Clarence Darrow
Criminal cases receive the attention of the press. The cruel and disagreeable things of life are more apt to get the newspaper space than the pleasant ones. It must be that most people enjoy hearing of and reading about the troubles of others. Perhaps men unconsciously feel that they rise in the general level as others go down.
Clarence Darrow
Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
Clarence Darrow
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
Clarence Darrow
Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
Clarence Darrow
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
Clarence Darrow
Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
Clarence Darrow
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.
Clarence Darrow
A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.
Clarence Darrow
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
Clarence Darrow
Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
Clarence Darrow
I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god he would be a devil.
Clarence Darrow
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
Clarence Darrow
Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.
Clarence Darrow
Chase after the truth like all hell.
Clarence Darrow
If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
Clarence Darrow
The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
Clarence Darrow
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
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
Clarence Darrow
The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
Clarence Darrow
