"Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out……" — H. L. Mencken
"Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavored and colored, and put into cans."
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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 Cans Quotes
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
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The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other…
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There are sixteen cans of coffee here; together they hold a total of thirteen and a half pounds of coffee.…
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The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
— Elbert Hubbard
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We would just go out and line up a bunch of cans and shoot with rifles, handguns and at times,…
— Johnny Depp
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Success comes in cans, not can'ts.
— Brian Tracy
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I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.
— Ludacris
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I was just taking out my trash and I had, like, 300 cans of Diet Coke. It was just like,…
— Robert Pattinson
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I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one…
— Jamie Oliver
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I have ate out of your garbage cans to stay out of jail. I have wore your second-hand clothes…I have…
— Charles Manson
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Nature, like Miamonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.
— Edward Abbey
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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are…
— Edward Abbey
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