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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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If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling…
— Rajneesh
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If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to…
— Jonathan Swift
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All Americans must recognize that the face of terror is not the true faith - face of Islam. Islam is a faith…
— George W. Bush
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Sexuality throws no light upon love, but only through love can we learn to understand sexuality.
— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
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Societies on this planet are based upon fear, not upon love. The strong dominate the weak.
— Frederick Lenz
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Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love.
— Henri Matisse
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The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is…
— Douglas Hyde
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Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.
— Leo Tolstoy
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The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.
— Idries Shah
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Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
— H. L. Mencken
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