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False Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a…
- For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient…
- The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit…
- The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly…
- The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
More False Quotes
- Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
- A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. — Saint Augustine
- We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race,… — Dan Aykroyd
- Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world… — Sai Baba
- An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often… — Russell Baker
- You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. — Stanley Baldwin
- I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip… — Alan Ball
- I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney… — Roseanne Barr
- Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget… — Ethel Barrymore
- A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we… — Saul Bellow
- It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios.… — John Belushi
- History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. — Ambrose Bierce