Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow

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

Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow

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.

Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.

Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow

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.

Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow

Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.

Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow

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

Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow

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

Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow

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.