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 DARROWWe are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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To think is to differ.
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Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
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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.
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.
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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.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
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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.
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Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
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Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
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I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
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