"There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists……" — H. L. Mencken
"There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind to the level of brutes. They are the sworn and sinister agents of Beelzebub, who yearns to conquer the world, and has his eye especially upon Tennessee.]"
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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 Afoot Quotes
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one of 34 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. If the banners and flags are shifted about,…
— Sun Tzu
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As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.
— William Shakespeare
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Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their…
— Robert Grudin
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The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.
— Horace Kephart
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I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great…
— Helen Keller
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For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new…
— Frantz Fanon
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A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going…
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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Let's face it, the romantic scene between the Romulan Commander and Spock [in “The Enterprise Incident”] was totally out of…
— D. C. Fontana
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The Goddess is Alive. Magic is afoot.
— Unknown Author
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Jesus came among us to show and teach the life for which we were made. He came very gently, opened…
— Dallas Willard
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I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Learning from books and teachers is like traveling by carriage, so we are told in the Veda. But, the carriage…
— Johannes Itten
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