"Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank……" — H. L. Mencken
"Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ."
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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 Archbishop Quotes
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Archbishop Milingo is a good Bishop and his contention that there are satanists in Rome is completely correct. Anybody who…
— Malachi Martin
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I think there’s a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother…
— Jody Williams
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There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth…
— William Temple
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It is a really good question. The other day I was praying over something as I was running, and I…
— Justin Welby
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Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge…
— Anthony Holden
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After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out…
— Abbe Pierre
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I was born on the 5th April 1942. On Good Friday. Round about crucifixion time. Archbishop Ussher, a man for…
— Peter Greenaway
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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop…
— A. N. Wilson
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In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had…
— Bob Dylan
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In New York, Catholic groups have forced an art gallery to shut down an exhibition of a six-foot image of…
— Bill Maher
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