"What men value in this world is not…" — H. L. Mencken
"What men value in this world is not rights but privileges."
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
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The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
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Every silver lining has a cloud.
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Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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