"The cure for the evils of democracy is…" — H. L. Mencken
"The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy."
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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 Cure Quotes
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one of 1,194 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
— Jane Austen
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself…
— Honore de Balzac
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
— Samuel Beckett
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
— Alfred Adler
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different…
— Jeff Bridges
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Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix…
— Bill Bryson
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Absence - that common cure of love.
— Lord Byron
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Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to…
— Joseph Campbell
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Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the…
— John Jay Chapman
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