Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.
Clarence DarrowEverything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.
Clarence DarrowIn the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
Clarence DarrowWe're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
Clarence DarrowEvery instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
Clarence Darrow