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Been Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- 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…
- I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have…
- 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…
- All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been…
- The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -…
- All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more…
- The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries…
- As for Lindbergh, another eminent servant of science, all he proved by his gaudy flight across the Atlantic was that God takes care of those…
- The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in…
- If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, Harry Truman would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at…
- The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the…
- Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every…
- All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped…
- Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress of humanity, far…
- The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians -- and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.
- Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. [...] The art of government is the exclusive possession of quacks…
- The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and…
- A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
- Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right…
- I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.
- For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour