"The objection to Puritans is not that they……" — H. L. Mencken
"The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think."
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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 Objection Quotes
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A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant…
— H. L. Mencken
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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment
— Henri Bergson
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The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. [Fundamentalists believe that] evolutionary theory must…
— Elizabeth S. Anderson
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Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry…
— James Madison
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It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Since, then, there is no objection to the mobility of the Earth, I think it must now be considered whether…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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The most common objection to changes in public policy which would increase a user's control of housing at the expense…
— John Turner
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