Clarence Darrow Quotes, Thoughts and Images

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

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

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

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

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

Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

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.

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.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

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

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

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

The trouble with law is lawyers.

You can only be free if I am free.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

I am sure of very little, and I shouldn't be surprised if those things were wrong.