Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.
As quoted in The New York Times (19 April 1936) |
In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
Clarence DarrowWith all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.
Clarence DarrowThe objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
Clarence DarrowYou can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
Clarence DarrowThe 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 DarrowI 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.
Clarence DarrowAll men do the best they can. But none meet life honestly and few heroically.
Clarence DarrowI don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
Clarence DarrowThere is no such thing as justice — in or out of court.
Clarence DarrowChase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
Clarence DarrowI feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
Clarence DarrowI 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 would be a devil.
Clarence DarrowCalvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
Clarence DarrowWhen I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
Clarence DarrowHistory repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
Clarence DarrowI have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
Clarence DarrowAs long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
Clarence DarrowHell, that's why they make erasers.
Clarence DarrowI have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
Clarence DarrowI had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
Clarence DarrowI was truly sorry for Mr. Bryan. But I consoled myself by thinking of the years through which he had busied himself tormenting intelligent professors with impudent questions about their faith, and seeking to arouse the ignoramuses and bigots to drive them out of their positions.
Clarence DarrowI had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man public opinion.
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