Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
Clarence DarrowThe truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
Clarence DarrowWith all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.
Clarence DarrowI knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
Clarence Darrow...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were doomed to hell? Can anyone with intelligence really believe that a child born today should be doomed because the snake tempted Eve and Eve tempted Adam? To believe that is not God-worship; it is devil-worship.
Clarence Darrow