"Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but……" — H. L. Mencken
"Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration."
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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 Aberration Quotes
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one of 65 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of…
— Francis Bacon
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People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under…
— Ilka Chase
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One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in…
— Jeff Cooper
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Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection…
— Shadia Drury
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The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every…
— Jean Lorrain
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The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk…
— Lester R. Brown
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It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself,…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these…
— John Astin
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Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a…
— Michel Foucault
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By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
— Emile M. Cioran
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The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St.…
— Bertrand Russell
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