The Best Clarence Darrow quotes

You can only be free if I am free. — Clarence Darrow

You can protect Your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can be free only if i am free. — Clarence Darrow

The pursuit of truth shall set you free–even if you never catch up with it. — Clarence Darrow

Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails. — Clarence Darrow

None meet life honestly and few heroically. — Clarence Darrow

The purpose of life is to live it. — Clarence Darrow

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and The second half by our children. — Clarence Darrow

Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either. — Clarence Darrow

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born. — Clarence Darrow

The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog–to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him. — Clarence Darrow

I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either. I don’t believe in God as I don’t believe in Mother Goose. — Clarence Darrow

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell. — Clarence Darrow

One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life. — Clarence Darrow

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

The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives. — Clarence Darrow

Life is a never–ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live. — Clarence Darrow

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

In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads. — Clarence Darrow

History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history. — Clarence Darrow

Chase after the truth like all hell. — Clarence Darrow

The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled. — Clarence Darrow

The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice. — Clarence Darrow

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

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil. — Clarence Darrow

People in this world are not often logical. — Clarence Darrow

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. — Clarence Darrow

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

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. he wants to reform the world. when he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can’t. — Clarence Darrow

The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along. — Clarence Darrow

I am an agnostic as to the question of God. — Clarence Darrow

I am an agnostIc; I do not pretend to know what many Ignorant men are sure of. — Clarence Darrow

An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths. — Clarence Darrow

I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner. — Clarence Darrow

I do not consIder It an Insult, but rather a complIment to be called an agnostIc. I do not pretend to know where many Ignorant men are sure––that Is all that agnostIcIsm means. — Clarence Darrow

Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand. — Clarence Darrow

George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty. — Clarence Darrow

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. — 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

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

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion. — Clarence Darrow

One of the bravest, grandest champions of human liberty the world has ever seen. {Darrow on the great Robert Ingersoll} — Clarence Darrow

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions. — Clarence Darrow

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose. — Clarence Darrow

Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? — 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

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man. I’m not worried about my soul. — Clarence Darrow

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood. — Clarence Darrow

If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong. — Clarence Darrow

Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn. — Clarence Darrow

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. — Clarence Darrow

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom. — Clarence Darrow

When i was a boy i was told that anybody could become president. now i’m beginning to believe it. — Clarence Darrow

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