Decency Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Decency Decency Human Human race Overestimate Overestimate Decency Race
We should never overestimate an audience's culture, but we should never underestimate their intelligence. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
We need to stop judging individuals based on their race, profession, gender, religion, or anything other than their own individual behavior and character. — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To the extent that I am genuinely educated, I am suspicious of all the things that the average citizen believes and the average pedagogue… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Come on, that was no foul! It may be a violation of all the basic rules of human decency, but its not a foul. — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
Listen, young people, I understand narcissism - clearly. But at least I have the decency to hate myself. And that's what's missing from the… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
“Faye, if you got eaten by another shark, would you please at least have the decency to say so? My time is kind of… — Elle Lothlorien Copy Share Image
Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“The quality of your life ultimately depends on the quality of your relationships . . . which are basically a reflection of your sense… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“No woman deserves to be treated as little more than your toy. If you feel she is nothing more than a cheap hooker, where… — Melody Anne Copy Share Image
“Almost everything you think is sacred, good and decent, is a lie and an all-out assault against truth and decency.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I am not a member of the chamber of commerce for show business, believe me, but there are some really good people in the… — Kurt Fuller Copy Share Image
Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'. — Don King Copy Share Image
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