Clarence Darrow Quotes - Page 6

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• When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any subject, or being interested in anything excepting a religion which took care of the soul. As man doubted the primitive conceptions about religion, and no longer accepted the literal, miraculous teachings of ancient books, he set himself to understand nature.

  Clarence Darrow

  Book, Teaching, Men

  "Why I Am an Agnostic: Including Expressions of Faith from a Protestant, a Catholic and a Jew". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1929.

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• Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.

  Clarence Darrow

  Civilization, Trials, Scope

  Richard J. Jensen, Clarence Darrow (1992). “Clarence Darrow: The Creation of an American Myth”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.

  Clarence Darrow

  School, Theory, Teach

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• The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Lying, Men

  Clarence Darrow (1904). “Farmington”

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• 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

  Men, Support, Religion

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• In this dilemma they evolved the theory of natural rights. If 'natural rights' means anything it means that the individual rights are to be determined by the conduct of Nature. But Nature knows nothing about rights in the sense of human conception.

  Clarence Darrow

  Mean, Rights, Determined

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.58, Lulu.com

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• Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

  Clarence Darrow

  Humorous, Men, Vermont

  "Foundations of Democracy: A Series of Debates". Book by Thomas Vernor Smith and Robert Alphonso Taft, 1939.

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• I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Death, Dying

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• 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

  Kindness, Charity, Might

  A Plea for Mercy, delivered September 1924

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• It is not for the world to judge, but to crown them all alike. Each and all lived out their own being, did their work in their own way, and carried a reluctant, stupid humanity to greater
  possibilities and grander heights.

  Clarence Darrow

  Stupid, Judging, Humanity

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and newspapers. Soon you may set Catholic against Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the minds of men.

  Clarence Darrow

  Book, School, Men

  Clarence Darrow's remarks during The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes case in Dayton, Tennessee, July 13, 1925.

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• A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

  Clarence Darrow

  Mind, Atheism, Body

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• Lawyers are natural politicians.

  Clarence Darrow

  Lawyer, Politician, Natural

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• The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, White, Black

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.77, Lulu.com

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• The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

  Clarence Darrow

  Future, Facts, Belief

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.388, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Hate, Ignorance, Thinking

  Clarence Darrow (1924). “Clarence Darrow on the Death Penalty”

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• I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

  Clarence Darrow

  Hate, Humorous, Food

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• 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

  Men, Dying, Purpose

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• Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.

  Clarence Darrow

  Responsibility, Men, Law

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.30, The Floating Press

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• Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Desire, Wish

  "The Story of My Life". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1932.

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• It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Opportunity, Too Much

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.59, University of Chicago Press

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• The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Thinking, Land

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.128, University of Chicago Press

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• The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.

  Clarence Darrow

  Real, Doors, Office

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• 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

  Running, Opportunity, Religion

  Clarence Darrow, S. T. Joshi (2005). “Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society”, p.66, Ohio University Press

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• 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

  Men, Order, Social

  Clarence Darrow, S. T. Joshi (2005). “Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society”, p.97, Ohio University Press

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