Clarence Darrow Quotes

I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. 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...

To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love...

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....

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.

[George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.

Was a great man. a wonderful intellect, a great soul of matchless courage, one of the great men of the earth -- and yet we have no right to bow down to his memory simply because he was great. Great or...

Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all the prospects that life could hold out for any of the young; one a graduate of...

The criminals who, in the face of contumely, hatred or violence, have led the world to a higher standard and brought humanity to a diviner order, have so loved truth and righteousness as to defy the l...

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

I am an agnostic I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Sympathy is the child of imagination

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President I'm beginning to believe it.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

The pursuit of truth will set you free even if you never catch up with it.

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men f...