"Any man who afflicts the human race with……" — H. L. Mencken
"Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood."
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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 Afflicts Quotes
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one of 33 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will…
— Joseph Hall
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There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One…
— Jules de Goncourt
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Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure,…
— Finley Peter Dunne
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Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves…
— Jeremiah Burroughs
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I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing.…
— Fred Saberhagen
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The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware…
— Stephen Vizinczey
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
— Agnes Repplier
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It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns…
— Kenny Smith
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I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of…
— Pope Francis
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Anger is one of the most common and destructive delusions, and it afflicts our mind almost every day. To solve…
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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