Ashamed Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ashamed Ashamed Government Decent man Government Government Lives Man Ashamed Politics
H. L. Mencken famously said that 'every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.' By now, however, I am no longer… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed. — Mencius Copy Share Image
Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins. — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This… — Pierce Brosnan 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
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I know what you're thinking... and you oughtta be ashamed of yourself. — Robert Preston Copy Share Image
You never meet the writer when you're making a TV movie in America - they're too ashamed to show up and see how their… — Joe Don Baker Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“with her own life. And I was ashamed.” Humiliated. Broken. Miserable. If Wilcher had stood by Jaymee, if her father hadn’t berated her, if… — Stacy Green Copy Share Image
You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. You should be ashamed to die until you've made some contribution to mankind. — Vernon Johns Copy Share Image
There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
“When all are undressed, one is somehow not ashamed, but when one's the only one undressed and everybody is looking, it's degrading,' he kept… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his glory and… — Zondervan Publishing 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. Absolutely nothing was uninteresting to him. His curiosity ranged from music to theology and from philosophy to history. He didn't simply know something…” quote by H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f46/h-l-mencken-245_absolutely-nothing_by-profession-a-biologist-thomas-henry-h_5368.jpg)
