"Adultery is the application of democracy to love." — H. L. Mencken

"Adultery is the application of democracy to love."

— H. L. Mencken

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647 Quotes by H. L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken has 647 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…
People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he…
Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God…
The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more…
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is…
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services…
Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those…

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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if… — Saint Augustine
Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses. — Charles Baudelaire
I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects,… — Bono
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. — Edmund Burke
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion,… — Samuel Butler
I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do… — Jimmy Carter
Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment]. — Nora Roberts
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a… — W. Somerset Maugham
Is it adultery if I'm committing it at one end of a guy and he's committing it at the other… — Dan Savage
The first breathe of adultery is the freest. — John Updike
The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. ABORTION is treason against the family and… — R.J. Rushdoony
Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have… — St. Jerome

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