Clarence Darrow słynne cytaty
„Strach przed Bogiem nie jest początkiem mądrości, ale jej końcem.”
The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. (ang.)
Źródło: Why I Am An Agnostic (1929)
„Od kiedy Fenicjanie wynaleźli pieniądze, na pytanie to może paść tylko jedna odpowiedź.”
gdy jego klient podziękował mu za skuteczną obronę, pytając, jak będzie mógł w dostateczny sposób go wynagrodzić
„Nie wierzę w Boga, ponieważ nie wierzę w krasnoludki.”
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose. (ang.)
w Toronto w 1930.
Źródło: Ian Curtis, Jesus: Myth Or Reality?, 2006
Clarence Darrow: Cytaty po angielsku
Voltaire (1916)
“I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.”
Speech in Toronto (1930); as quoted in "Breaking the Last Taboo" (1996) by James A. Haught
As quoted in Jesus: Myth Or Reality? (2006) by Ian Curtis
Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either.
As quoted in The New York Times (19 April 1936)
Wariant: I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either. I don’t believe in God as I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
Why I Am An Agnostic (1929)
Źródło: The Story of My Life (1932), Ch. 27 "The Loeb-Leopold Tragedy", p. 232
This quote was attributed to Darrow in the biography Clarence Darrow for the Defence (1949), but its earliest known source is from a journal entry of George Sand from 1835.
Misattributed
“Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.”
As quoted in Foundations of Democracy: A Series of Debates (1939) by Thomas Vernor Smith and Robert Alphonso Taft, p. 10