"The only kind of freedom that the mob……" — H. L. Mencken
"The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have."
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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 Annoy Quotes
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one of 162 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
— Pietro Aretino
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People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me.
— John Bonham
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It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make…
— Jo Brand
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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
— Fred Allen
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The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly…
— E. W. Howe
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The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.
— Stephen Sondheim
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I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the…
— Adolf Hitler
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Get out into the sunlight-out where everything is-with a vibration that is so dominant that those who annoy you, those…
— Esther Hicks
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I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they…
— Robert Southey
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If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
— Kingsley Amis
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What, more petitions! Won't you be, and stay, intimidated? You must really annoy Sen. Dodd. Here it is [my signature],…
— Edward Condon
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Things that annoy me end up fuelling my ideas.
— Josh James
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