We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
Clarence DarrowAutobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
Clarence DarrowAs long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
Clarence DarrowThe efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.
Clarence DarrowReligion is based on the insistence that over and above all is a purpose and a guiding hand that is beneficent and kind, and would not leave a hair unnumbered or let a sparrow fall unnoticed to the ground. Those who cherish such hallucinations forget that the all-loving power is inflicting tuberculosis, cancer, famine, and pestilence on the trusting, simple sons of men.
Clarence Darrow