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Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth. (H L Mencken Quotes)
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. (H L Mencken Quotes)
Some boys go to college and eventually succeed in getting out. Others go to college and never succeed in getting out. The latter are called professors. (H L Mencken Quotes)
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts. (H L Mencken Quotes)
A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be abandoned and that the method used in choosing juries be substituted. That is to say, I propose that the men who make our laws be chosen by chance and against will of all the rest of us, as now. (H L Mencken Quotes)
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion. (H L Mencken Quotes)
A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general. (H L Mencken Quotes)
I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms. (H L Mencken Quotes)
You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. (H L Mencken Quotes)
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. (H L Mencken Quotes)
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. (H L Mencken Quotes)
No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion. (H L Mencken Quotes)
The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not any thirst for knowledge, but simply a yearning for adventure. ... A Polar explorer always talks grandly of sacrificing his fingers and toes to science. It is an amiable pretention, but there is no need to take it seriously. (H L Mencken Quotes)
I can’t imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind. (H L Mencken Quotes)
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest. (H L Mencken Quotes)
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. (H L Mencken Quotes)
The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do. (H L Mencken Quotes)
The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the YMCA sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman. (H L Mencken Quotes)
The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her (H L Mencken Quotes)
Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from the imbecilities of their husbands. (H L Mencken Quotes)
No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. (H L Mencken Quotes)
The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. (H L Mencken Quotes)
Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails. (H L Mencken Quotes)
A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one. (H L Mencken Quotes)
A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman (H L Mencken Quotes)
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom (H L Mencken Quotes)
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public (H L Mencken Quotes)
Most people want security in this world, not liberty (H L Mencken Quotes)
Anyhow, the hole in the doughnut is at least digestible (H L Mencken Quotes)
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts (H L Mencken Quotes)