All H. L. Mencken Quotes
- A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought. Atheist
- Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage. Atheist
- When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do not believe in… Atheist
- People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police. Atheist
- 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. Everyman
- Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and… Agnosticism
- The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the… All
- Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt. Become Civilized
- To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong... Answer
- The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés. Activity
- I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have… Been
- Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are the most tolerable… Arbitary
- A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them. Defense
- The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them. Doings
- One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a… Fact
- If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself Aman
- If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States. Any
- How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh. Cockroach
- When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. Fanatics
- The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do. Air