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Common Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am…
- A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something…
- The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions…
- It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator…
- It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man…
- The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. It is…
- It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every…
- For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and…
- The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.
- The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.
- It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me…
- Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
- I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
- The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
- The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
- School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances,…
- Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn…
More Common Quotes
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths… — Sri Aurobindo
- Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so… — Dan Aykroyd
- A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
- I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire doesn't mean… — Stephen Baldwin