"The true bureaucrat is a man of really……" — H. L. Mencken
"The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an almost infinite capacity for forming complicated and unworkable rules."
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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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To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always…
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda…
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Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure…
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Love is both a principle and an emotion; it is something both felt and willed. It is capable of almost…
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We give thanks often with a tearful, doubtful voice, for our spiritual mercies positive, but what an almost infinite field…
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It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series…
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
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R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being,…
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