"The most disgusting cad in the world is……" — H. L. Mencken
"The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He is one who puts his own ease and security above the most laudable of philanthropies."
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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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If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids…
— Margaret Atwood
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
— Abu Bakr
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
— Daniel Berrigan
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A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined…
— Sun Tzu
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Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands,…
— Sun Tzu
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.
— Albert Einstein
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Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
— Theodore Parker
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Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality…
— Arthur Cayley
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For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
— Horace
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It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids.…
— Judy Collins
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