Clarence Darrow Quotes

As a rule, the less a person knows, the surer he is, and he gets it by instinct, and it can’t be disputed, for I don’t know what is going on in another man’s mind. I have no such instinct.

Did He raise a dead man to life? Why, tens of thousands of dead men and women have been raised to life according to all the stories and all the traditions. Was this the only case? All Europe is filled with miracles of that sort, the Catholic church performing miracles almost to the present time. […]

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.

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

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.

I 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.

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

There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court.

Competition has many times caused distress and failure; for competition does not think or feel; still, thus far, we have found nothing to take the place of competition excepting monopoly, which is but a modern form of slavery. Unrestricted business tends toward monopoly. It gives an advantage to the strong, the clever, the selfish and […]