Clarence Darrow Frases famosas
“A primeira parte de nossas vidas é arruinada por nossos pais, a segunda por nossos filhos.”
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children
citado em "The dictionary of humorous quotations" - Página 62, de Evan Esar - Doubleday, 1949 - 270 páginas
All men do the best they can. But none meet life honestly and few heroically.
citado em Infidels and Heretics : An Agnostic's Anthology (1929) editado por Clarence Darrow e Wallace Rice, p. 206
citado em "Citações da Cultura Universal" - Página 23, Alberto J. G. Villamarín, Editora AGE Ltda, 2002, ISBN 8574970891, 9788574970899
“Não acredito em Deus, pois não acredito na Mãe Ganso.”
Mamãe Ganso (Mother Goose) - referência à fictícia autora de uma série muito popular de contos infantis publicada em Londres no século XVIII.
Clarence Darrow frases e citações
Clarence Darrow: Frases em inglês
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)
Variante: 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)
Fonte: 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