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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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I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
— Camille Desmoulins
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The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men…
— Suzanne La Follette
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In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of…
— Karl Marx
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I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable…
— Mark Twain
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He considered the Rvolution a victroy for the Jews, which opinion, he said, prevailed on the East Side where rejoicing knew no…
— Abraham Cahan
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The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a…
— Walt Whitman
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Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.
— H. L. Mencken
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Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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