5 Clarence Darrow Quotes on Change

Clarence Darrow quotes on change

20. It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change.

22. As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

29. Voltaire was not the first or last man to convert a prison into a hall of fame. A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind. It was while in prison that he changed his name from the one his father gave him - Arouet - to the one he has made famous throughout all time - Voltaire. He said, 'I was very unlucky under my first name. I want to see if this one will succeed any better.'

35. In Geneva lived Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He too was a rebel, mighty in war. Voltaire was keener, wittier, deeper, greater. Rousseau was more fiery, emotional, passionate. Both were really warriors in the same great cause. From their different places, three miles apart, both sent forth their thunderbolts to wake a sleeping world. When the world awakened and shook itself, churches, thrones, institutions, laws, and customs were buried in the wreck. Some charged the wreck to Voltaire, some to Rousseau.

50. Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.