"Religion is a conceited effort to deny the……" — H. L. Mencken

"Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities."

— H. L. Mencken

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647 Quotes by H. L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken has 647 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…
People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he…
Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God…
The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more…
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is…
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services…
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 Conceited Quotes

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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of… — Joseph Addison
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. — Aesop
Self-conceit may lead to self destruction. — Aesop
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. — Elizabeth Bowen
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils… — Louisa May Alcott
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years… — Dale Carnegie
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde
Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she… — Arthur Conan Doyle
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. — Zig Ziglar
Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not. — Oscar Wilde
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to… — Brenda Ueland

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