"There is only one justification for having sinned,……" — H. L. Mencken
"There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it."
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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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I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does…
— Dean Acheson
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Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking…
— Drew Barrymore
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When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College…
— Angela Bassett
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I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to…
— Kate Beckinsale
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I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.
— Saul Bellow
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is…
— John Berger
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I'm glad I was in the Navy.
— Yogi Berra
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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
— Annie Besant
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We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but…
— Mortimer Adler
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I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad…
— Orlando Bloom
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I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting…
— Carol Burnett
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