"When fanatics are on top there is no…" — H. L. Mencken
"When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."
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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'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention…
— Antonio Banderas
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In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology…
— Bob Beauprez
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Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.
— Vanna Bonta
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We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are…
— Robert M. Hutchins
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This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today. It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent…
— Tony Blair
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Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics…
— Albert Einstein
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
— John Keats
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Ashcroft went on to say that our way of life is being threatened by a group of radical religious fanatics…
— Jay Leno
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You must also remember that the world has God to govern it, and He has not left it to our…
— Swami Vivekananda
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No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.
— Cassius Jackson Keyser
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish…
— Otto Hermann Kahn
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