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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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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
— Zhuangzi
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The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so…
— H. L. Mencken
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Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we…
— John Stuart Mill
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You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the…
— William Allen White
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The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.
— James Russell Lowell
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
— Jonathan Swift
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Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are…
— Dean Koontz
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Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
— Zhuangzi
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Some people take more care to hide their wisdom, than their folly.
— Jonathan Swift
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