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Right Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- 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 the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with…
- No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.
- Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right…
- I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free…
- Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and…
- My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any…
- Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right…
- Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
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- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? — Richard Bach
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