"Looking for an honest politician is like looking……" — H. L. Mencken
"Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar."
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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 Burglar Quotes
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one of 38 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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After a burglary of all her most valued and treasured possessions, Winston Churchill's aging mother wrote: "That burglar relieved me…
— Anne Sebba
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The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived. . . .Out of print…
— Terry Teachout
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In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been…
— Simone Weil
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Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not…
— Mignon McLaughlin
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If you're a burglar, it's no good waiting about outside somebody's house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just…
— Ian Holloway
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Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar…
— Kate Jacobs
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When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook…
— W. S. Gilbert
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Concerning politics: "The American media is like a watchdog who has developed an affection for the burglar."
— Unknown Author
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Crime in the cities is very discouraging. Apartment house dwellers have locks, bolts, chains and bars on their doors. It…
— Sam Ewing
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If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
— G. Gordon Liddy
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I'd probably be a burglar, I'd burgle people.
— Tre Cool
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