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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

Clarence Darrow

Everybody is a potential murderer. I’ve never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
CLARENCE DARROW

Kill Murder Notice Potential Reading Satisfaction
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
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
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
CLARENCE DARROW

Hate Injustice Land Patriot True
The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.
CLARENCE DARROW

Better Fight Himself Man
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
CLARENCE DARROW

Face Greatness Growth Lonely Myself Opinion Stand
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
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
CLARENCE DARROW

Afflict Comfortable Compassionate Human
I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
CLARENCE DARROW

Afraid Devil God Man Universe Woman
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man’s origin, capacity and responsibility.
CLARENCE DARROW

Custom Ideas Law Old Ourselves Responsibility
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
In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.
CLARENCE DARROW

Enough Freedom Necessary Order
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
CLARENCE DARROW

Law Poet Wreck
Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
CLARENCE DARROW

Chase Freedom Hell Touch Truth Yourself
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
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.
CLARENCE DARROW

Beginning Believe Myself President

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

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