I go to a better tailor than any of you and pay more for my clothes. The only difference is that you probably don't sleep in yours. Clarence Darrow More Quotes by Clarence Darrow More Quotes From Clarence Darrow To think is to differ. Clarence Darrow education teacher thinking Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial. Clarence Darrow mind men thinking 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 support men religion The trouble with law is lawyers. Clarence Darrow trouble law feet 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 teaching men book We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair. Clarence Darrow despair prison men In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads. Clarence Darrow cake choices way 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 office real doors 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 land men thinking None meet life honestly and few heroically. Clarence Darrow honestly life Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. Clarence Darrow jealous soul men Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial. Clarence Darrow scope trials civilization If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part. Clarence Darrow destiny party men 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 determined rights mean 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 social men order Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream. Clarence Darrow perspective imagination dream 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 opportunity running religion Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices. Clarence Darrow smart clever funny One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life. Clarence Darrow philosophy long years The consideration and kindness shown by unfortunates to each other are surprising to those who have no experience with this class of men. Often to find real sympathy you must go to those who know what misery means. Clarence Darrow real kindness mean
