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

Clarence Darrow

Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
CLARENCE DARROW

Greatness Money Touch
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
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
CLARENCE DARROW

Close Important Life Man Wonderful
It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
CLARENCE DARROW

Bad Cruelty Fear Goodness Himself People Punishment
Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
CLARENCE DARROW

Belief Future God Life Myself Religion
The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.
CLARENCE DARROW

Audience Compare Death Life Public Reality Small Theatre
For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.
CLARENCE DARROW

Judgement Leaving Room Understand
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
CLARENCE DARROW

Clothes Fit Law People Service
There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
CLARENCE DARROW

Errors Evil Soul Truth
My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.
CLARENCE DARROW

Constitution Laws Myself
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
CLARENCE DARROW

Believe God Mom Myself
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
The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog – to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.
CLARENCE DARROW

Death Himself Man Purpose
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
CLARENCE DARROW

Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
CLARENCE DARROW

Case Jury Law Reality
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
CLARENCE DARROW

Fight Oneself Reason

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