"Don't overestimate the decency of the human race." — H. L. Mencken

"Don't overestimate the decency of the human race."

— 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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More Decency Quotes

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God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind. — Aeschylus
That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any… — Danny Boyle
I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy. — James L. Brooks
Morals are private. Decency is public. — Rita Mae Brown
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is… — Pablo Casals
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes… — Carl Sagan
The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure… — George Meany
We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these… — George S. Patton
Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime. — Robert A. Heinlein
The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient. — Robert Breault

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