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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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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not…
— George Meredith
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[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from…
— Christopher Hitchens
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In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity…
— Gaston Bachelard
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The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great…
— William Gibson
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What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else
— Seth Godin
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There is a tendency among many shallow thinkers of our day to teach that every human act is a reflex, over which…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.
— Geoffrey Wood
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Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
— H. L. Mencken
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In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one…
— John Edward Williams
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Morality: The theory that every human act must either be right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong
— Henry Louis Mencken
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