"What is too often forgotten is that nature……" — H. L. Mencken
"What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers."
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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 Benign Quotes
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A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.
— Nan Fairbrother
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The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really…
— Mitch McConnell
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When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is…
— John Howard Griffin
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To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success
— Malcolm Mclaren
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the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In…
— Marilyn Ferguson
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Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing…
— Tommy Rettig
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I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be…
— Kyle MacLachlan
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Some stalkers are quite benign, but finding someone in your garden at three o’clock in the morning with a meat…
— Daniel Craig
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I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a…
— Maggie Smith
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New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once…
— Alec Baldwin
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The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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