Clarence Darrow Quotes about Children

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The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow

Inspirational, Life, Children

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Clarence Darrow

Wisdom, Children, Teaching

...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

Children, Fear, Believe

Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

Clarence Darrow

Children, Intelligent, Parent

Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.

Clarence Darrow

Children, Chloroform, Fit

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

Clarence Darrow

Children, Lying, Men

Clarence Darrow (1904). “Farmington”

It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.

Clarence Darrow

Children, Opportunity, Too Much

Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.59, University of Chicago Press

Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.

Clarence Darrow

Children, Believe, Emotional