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Own Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He is…
- It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own…
- It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
- There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or…
- Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on.…
- Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings…
- Every man is his own hell.
- The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow…
- Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government,…
- 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…
- A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
- There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he…
- Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable.…
- Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
- It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either…
- Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov