Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) quotations

From the Department of They Don’t Make Em Like They Used To:

  • Chase after truth like hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.
  • Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
  • I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
  • If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
  • No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
  • If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
  • Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
  • There is no such thing as justice – in or out of court.
  • You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
  • To think is to differ.
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