Quote

Great wealth often curses all who touch it.

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
Curses
Curse
Touch
Wealth
Often
Great

More quotes by Clarence Darrow

Image
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
Clarence Darrow
Image
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
Clarence Darrow
Image
The purpose of life is to live it.
Clarence Darrow
Image
If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.
Clarence Darrow
Image
Lawyers are natural politicians.
Clarence Darrow
Image
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow
Image
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
Clarence Darrow
Image
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
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
Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.
Clarence Darrow
Image
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Clarence Darrow
Image
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
Image
There is a soul of truth in error there is a soul of good in evil.
Clarence Darrow
Image
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
Clarence Darrow
Image
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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
It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
Clarence Darrow
Image
You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
Clarence Darrow
Image
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
Clarence Darrow
Image
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
Clarence Darrow