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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

Clarence Darrow

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
CLARENCE DARROW

Business Funny Honesty Law Pretend
Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.
CLARENCE DARROW

End Environment Important Lesson Life Live Relation
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
CLARENCE DARROW

Contemplation Conversation Cultivation Silence
It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.
CLARENCE DARROW

Class Community Domination Law Myself Natural Protection Remember
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
CLARENCE DARROW

Hell Myself Suffering Understand
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
CLARENCE DARROW

Happiness Himself Man Wrong
Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.
CLARENCE DARROW

Conflict Fight Forever Liberty Man Obligation Preservation Tolerance
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
CLARENCE DARROW

Laughter Lose Power Thinking Yourself
The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
CLARENCE DARROW

Life Live Purpose Woman
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
CLARENCE DARROW

Children Doubt Thinking Tragedy
It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
CLARENCE DARROW

Oneself Origin Teaching Theory
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
CLARENCE DARROW

Justice Politics Room
Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
CLARENCE DARROW

Animal Death Emotion Enjoyment Hate Help
For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
CLARENCE DARROW

Judgement Leaving Room Understand
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
CLARENCE DARROW

Defect Exception Intelligence Reality
I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
CLARENCE DARROW

Earth Existence Feeling Himself Home Man

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