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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

Clarence Darrow

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

Better Education Human Improvement Man Social
Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.
CLARENCE DARROW

Forget Jury Lost Win
You can’t get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.
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End Human Important Method Place Society
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Afflict Comfortable Compassionate Human
There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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Contentment Kill Sick
Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Civilization Scope Trial
I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
CLARENCE DARROW

Food Hate Myself Opinion
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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Best Common Friendship Help Kind Passenger
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
CLARENCE DARROW

Compliment Ignorance Insult Man Myself Pretend
The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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Life Live Purpose Woman
The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
CLARENCE DARROW

Object Past Raise Rebel Voice World
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.
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Class Community Domination Law Myself Natural Protection Remember
There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.
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Action Crime Thinking
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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Poor Rich Trial
Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Greatness Money Touch
The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.
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Defend Delusion Land Strong Weakness

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

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