"Most people are unable to write because they……" — H. L. Mencken
"Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon."
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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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Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who…
— H. L. Mencken
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Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of…
— Margaret Sanger
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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of…
— John Berger
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Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a…
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
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What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all…
— Aldous Huxley
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You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich…
— Michael Crichton
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
— William Faulkner
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Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us,…
— Oliver Sacks
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Politics is the process of getting along with the querulous, the garrulous and the congenitally unlovable.
— Marilyn Moats Kennedy
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