"Progress: The process whereby the human race has……" — H. L. Mencken
"Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix, and God."
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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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Everybody is afraid they won't have any money after they die, but Jack Benny discovered a way to take it…
— Bob Hope
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The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I…
— Carey Mulligan
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Remarrying a husband you've divorced is like having your appendix put back in.
— Phyllis Diller
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I cant retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. Youd have to remove the music…
— Ray Charles
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Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man…
— Carl Jung
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The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.
— Vasily Smyslov
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I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good…
— Tommy Douglas
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How's his appendix?""Like crap. They almost didn't catch it in time, and he's still doing the ass-plant in a hospital…
— Marjorie M. Liu
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Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of…
— Jeff Schweitzer
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Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like…
— J R Ward
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The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of…
— Erich Fromm
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The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not…
— Robert Genn
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