Clarence Darrow

That men should ‘turn the other cheek,’ should ‘love their enemies,’ should ‘resist not evil,’ has ever seemed fine to teach to children, to preach on Sundays, to round a period in a senseless oratorical flight; but it has been taken for …

Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought — even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

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

All men do the best they can. But none meet life honestly and few heroically.

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.

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.

Man does not live by truth, but by the illusions that his brain conceives.

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of …

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat …

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