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Really Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
- The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.
- Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are the most tolerable…
- The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it.…
- The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
- Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is that, when there…
- The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not…
- Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
- People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but…
- The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an…
- There's really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
- The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. It is…
- Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the…
- Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.
- So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association…
- If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object. But…
- The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
- The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches.…
- School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances,…
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