Quote

The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.

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
Making
Money
Truth
Littles
Little
Accumulating
Brains
Either
Brain

More quotes by Clarence Darrow

Image
Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.
Clarence Darrow
Image
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
Clarence Darrow
Image
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
Clarence Darrow
Image
Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.
Clarence Darrow
Image
The law is a horrible 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
Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
Clarence Darrow
Image
One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.
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
Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.
Clarence Darrow
Image
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
Image
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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 to live it.
Clarence Darrow
Image
Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.
Clarence Darrow
Image
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
Clarence Darrow