Clarence Darrow Life Quotations

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

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.

The purpose of life is to live it.

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.

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.

You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach humanity our proper relation to the environment where we must live.

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children