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There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.

Clarence Darrow

Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
CLARENCE DARROW

Belief Future God Life Myself Religion
I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
CLARENCE DARROW

Distribution Fact Greatness Honesty Man Money Myself Question
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
Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document?
CLARENCE DARROW

Believe Document Human Personal
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
CLARENCE DARROW

Poor Rich Trial
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
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
CLARENCE DARROW

Correct Learning Speak Talk Yourself
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
CLARENCE DARROW

Charity Hate Misfortune Revenge
We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.
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Blank Forever Home Live Man Prison
I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
CLARENCE DARROW

Believe Goodness Mom Myself
Anyone can spot a lie, unless he is in need of that lie.
CLARENCE DARROW

Himself Lying Need
I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.
CLARENCE DARROW

Battle Fight Life Live Myself Oppression Poor Power Weakness
Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it – religious fanaticism.
CLARENCE DARROW

Dangerous Education Fans Religious Source
A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate
CLARENCE DARROW

Capital Cooperation Criminal
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
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
CLARENCE DARROW

Hero Honesty Life
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
I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
CLARENCE DARROW

Believe God Mom Myself
Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes.
CLARENCE DARROW

Heroes Idol One Liner
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
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
CLARENCE DARROW

Modern Safety Time Truth Voice
The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
CLARENCE DARROW

Accomplishment Nation Path People Tax Willing Wrong
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
CLARENCE DARROW

Freedom Human Institution Law
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
CLARENCE DARROW

Children Himself Intelligence Parents
It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.
CLARENCE DARROW

Children Greatness Misfortune Opportunity Rich
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.
CLARENCE DARROW

Best Common Friendship Help Kind Passenger
I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
CLARENCE DARROW

Friendship Man Oneself Work

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