"Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinion……" — H. L. Mencken
"Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives."
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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 Acquiescence Quotes
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No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.
— Thomas Jefferson
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If you're fighting the system, then you're still caught in it. It's not about fighting the system; it's about ceasing…
— David Icke
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Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is…
— Noam Chomsky
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The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper…
— Grover Cleveland
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The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?
— William J. Murray
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To say grace, knowing that people on this globe are starving, indicates a highly selfish acquiescence in the arrogantly supposed…
— Barbara Smoker
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He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He…
— Joshua Chamberlain
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Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to…
— Jeff Buckley
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Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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