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Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice (H L Mencken Quotes)
If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar (H L Mencken Quotes)
The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion (H L Mencken Quotes)
Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right (H L Mencken Quotes)
Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one (H L Mencken Quotes)
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt (H L Mencken Quotes)
A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them (H L Mencken Quotes)
There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself (H L Mencken Quotes)
My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought (H L Mencken Quotes)
The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected (H L Mencken Quotes)
There comes a time in every man’s life when he’s consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats (H L Mencken Quotes)
Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety (H L Mencken Quotes)
The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous (H L Mencken Quotes)
No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her (H L Mencken Quotes)
Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes (H L Mencken Quotes)
Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them (H L Mencken Quotes)
The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists (H L Mencken Quotes)
The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it (H L Mencken Quotes)
Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence (H L Mencken Quotes)
Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequently find them arrayed against us (H L Mencken Quotes)
What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell (H L Mencken Quotes)
The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him (H L Mencken Quotes)
The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated (H L Mencken Quotes)
The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man (H L Mencken Quotes)
I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself (H L Mencken Quotes)
Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother (H L Mencken Quotes)
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud it lines. A wise happy person does the exact opposite (H L Mencken Quotes)
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful (H L Mencken Quotes)
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend to be noticeably silly (H L Mencken Quotes)
The war on privilege will never end. Its next great campaign will be against the privileges of the underprivileged (H L Mencken Quotes)