Clarence Darrow Famous Quotes
There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.
The law is a horrible business.
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
"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."
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
"Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails."
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man.
"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."
"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think."
To think is to differ.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to"
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all that agnosticism means.
"With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed."
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure."
"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children."
"Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance."
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence Darrow Quotations
"Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites."
Sigmund Freud
"This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign."
Dwight D Eisenhower
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C P Snow
"I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you."
Wayne Gretzky
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
Salvador Dali
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Alan B Watts
He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
Publilius Syrus
"Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon"
George Walker Bush
"Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people'--that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."
Peter Drucker