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Honest 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…
- There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."
- One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim…
- A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.
- Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar.
- A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about…
- No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian, his true meannesses,…
- 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…
- A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
- There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for…
- If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
More Honest Quotes
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov
- I try to be honest and I keep moving. — Erykah Badu
- Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me. — Erykah Badu
- I want to be an honest man and a good writer. — James A. Baldwin
- Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked… — Stephen Baldwin
- Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be… — Russell Banks
- I think you have an obligation to be honest. — Charles Barkley
- It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only… — Albert Barnes
- All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is… — John Quincy Adams
- If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to… — Martha Beck
- A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming… — Henry Ward Beecher