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Clarence Darrow was a prominent American lawyer known for his defense of controversial clients and his influential legal arguments. He was born on April 18, 1857, and passed away on March 13, 1938.

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Famous Clarence Darrow Quotes

“Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.”

Thinking World May Shows Hate Understanding Ignorance Hatred Add Cruelty Cures Flames Fuel Here And There

Book:Clarence Darrow on the Death Penalty

Source: Clarence Darrow on the Death Penalty

“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.”

Thinking Men Mind Turns Horror Contemplation Accustomed Make Out Burial Undertaker

Book:Crime: Its Cause and Treatment

Source: Crime: Its Cause and Treatment

“Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.”

Thinking Believe Persons Home Possessed Agnostic Madhouses

Book:Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays

Source: Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays

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

Thinking Children Wisdom Doubt Teaching Tragedy Doubted Teaching Children Faith And Doubt

Author:Clarence Darrow

“The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his fellow men. In youth he may have learned the command, 'Thou shalt not kill,' but the ruler takes the boy just as he enters manhood and teaches him that his highest duty is to shoot a bullet through his neighbor's heart - and this, unmoved by passion or feeling or hatred, and without the least regard to right or wrong, but simply because his ruler gives the word.”

“If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.”

Ifs Thinking Inspirational Humor Loses Attitude Laughing Laughter Innovation Thoughts And Thinking Power Of Laughter Humour And Laughter

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“To think is to differ.”

Thinking Education Teacher Investing Individuality Independent Thinking

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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Men Speak Land Constitution Delusion Strongest Snares

Book:Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

Source: Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

About the Author

Born: April 18, 1857
Died: March 13, 1938
Known for: Lawyer
Quotes: 191

Books & Sources

The Story of My LifeRelated source material

Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the CourtroomRelated source material

Why I Am an Agnostic and Other EssaysRelated source material

Crime: Its Cause and TreatmentRelated source material

Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and SocietyRelated source material

A Persian pearl, and other essaysRelated source material

Clarence Darrow on the Death PenaltyRelated source material

Clarence Darrow: The Creation of an American MythRelated source material

FarmingtonRelated source material

In the Clutches of the Law: Clarence Darrow's LettersRelated source material

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