"The chief business of the nation, as a……" — H. L. Mencken
"The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus."
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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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The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of…
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It is not up to the senators to determine whether an NGO is bogus or not
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If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.
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There is no legitimate use whatsoever for marijuana. This is not medicine. This is bogus witchcraft. It has no place…
— Bob Barr
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There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy: nothing-buttery, for example, always part of the minor symptomatology of…
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I think they're bogus, honestly. How utter garbage like Crash and Million Dollar Baby can win best picture, where true…
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Just as bank tellers need a thorough knowledge of legitimate currency in order to spot counterfeit bills, so Christians need…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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I'd seen Sage bleed. I'd made Sage bleed. Not that it hurt him any; he healed so quickly...In smaller doses…
— Hilary Duff
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SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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