"The lunatic fringe wags the underdog." — H. L. Mencken
"The lunatic fringe wags the underdog."
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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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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues.
— Michele Bachmann
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The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed…
— John Mott
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More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles,…
— Jonathan Rauch
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The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to…
— Ansel Adams
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If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory,…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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I was always prepared for my 'Fringe' journey to end immediately. I had only signed up for a guest role…
— Seth Gabel
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The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.
— John Desmond Bernal
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As evangelical Christians, we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life…
— Francis Schaeffer
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As Muslims it is our duty to condemn the killings and our duty to ensure that those on the fringe…
— Iqbal Sacranie
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Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of…
— Jerry Uelsmann
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