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H. L. Mencken has 641 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
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Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
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When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do…
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People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
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Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left…
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a…
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle…
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a…
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the…
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Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are…
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in…
— Otto von Bismarck
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A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people…
— Saint Augustine
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In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of…
— Gautama Buddha
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Wherever the bishop shall appear, let the multitude of also be, just as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the catholic [i.e.,…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that…
— H. L. Mencken
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We don't earn God's love; we receive it. We don't work for His approval; He approves us.
— Dillon Burroughs
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The bottom line is that the true test of one's commitment to freedom of association doesn't come when he allows people to…
— Walter E. Williams
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For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.
— Horace
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It doesn't matter who likes you or doesn't like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he…
— Joel Osteen
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