"Man, without a saving touch of woman in……" — H. L. Mencken
"Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his imagination to be anything above a cavalryman, a theologian or a corporation director."
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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 Corporation Quotes
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No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.
— George Matthew Adams
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It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.
— Scott Adams
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any…
— David Bohm
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An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Women will change the corporation more than we expect.
— Anita Borg
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I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
— David Byrne
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News Corporation, today, reaches people at home and at work... when they're thinking... when they're laughing... and when they are…
— Rupert Murdoch
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A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.
— John Marshall
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With Epcot Center, the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
— Gloria Swanson
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The organization that can't communicate can't change, and the corporation that can't change is dead.
— Nido R Qubein
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