"A Galileo could no more be elected president……" — H. L. Mencken
"A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion."
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647 Quotes by H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken has 647 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more…
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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…
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services…
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Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those…
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More Bandages Quotes
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one of 24 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple…
— Tracy Chapman
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Hey! Who stole my collection of used bandages?! And they also got away with my nude pictures of Ernest Borgnine!
— George Carlin
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I went in right up front and said, This can't be about some guy in bandages. I didn't even want…
— Stephen Sommers
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One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is imperative that preachers of today learn how to declare the spritual law of God; for, until we learn…
— Walter J Chantry
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If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely…
— Adeline Yen Mah
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I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer." I'm jolted back in…
— Suzanne Collins
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They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Please don’t do this—don’t do this to me. If anything happened to you—” He looked at her with surprise. There…
— Cassandra Clare
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And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of…
— Sylvia Plath
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