Quote

Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.

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
Live
Fixed
Must
Structure
Emotional
Children
Gone
Believe
Everyone
Life
Lives
Heir
Nature
Heredity
Two
Heirs

More quotes by Clarence Darrow

Image
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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
The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
Clarence Darrow
Image
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
Image
There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
Clarence Darrow
Image
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.
Clarence Darrow
Image
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
Clarence Darrow
Image
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
Clarence Darrow
Image
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
Clarence Darrow
Image
The law is a horrible business.
Clarence Darrow
Image
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
Image
Cheating, having 'hoes,' none of that is cute. To be honest, it's really immature. I don't see how people take pride in breaking someone's heart. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Clarence Darrow
Image
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
Clarence Darrow
Image
The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
Clarence Darrow
Image
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence Darrow
Image
Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.
Clarence Darrow
Image
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
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
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
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
Clarence Darrow