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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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Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
— William Hazlitt
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
— Francis Bacon
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
— Henry Fielding
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The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations,…
— Adam Clarke
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
— H. L. Mencken
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It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in…
— Archibald Alexander Hodge
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Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped…
— William Godwin
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
— Francis Bacon
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Gold clingeth to the protection of the cautious owner who invests it under the advice of men wise in its handling.
— The Richest Man In Babylon
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider . . . Histories…
— Francis Bacon Sr
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