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No man is genuinely happy, married, who has to drink worse gin than he used to drink when he was single (H L Mencken Quotes)
The aim of medicine is surely not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices (H L Mencken Quotes)
The precise form of an individual’s activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity (H L Mencken Quotes)
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is (H L Mencken Quotes)
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented (H L Mencken Quotes)
The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers (H L Mencken Quotes)
One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up (H L Mencken Quotes)
The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it (H L Mencken Quotes)
One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top, there is no limit to repression (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)
A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn’t remember any time that he wasn’t, has almost no hatred for the religious (H L Mencken Quotes)
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor (H L Mencken Quotes)
History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men (H L Mencken Quotes)
It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs (H L Mencken Quotes)
The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have (H L Mencken Quotes)
Christian theology is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is opposed to every other form of rational thinking (H L Mencken Quotes)
After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits (H L Mencken Quotes)
All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine (H L Mencken Quotes)
The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius (H L Mencken Quotes)
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation (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)
You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing (H L Mencken Quotes)
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful (H L Mencken Quotes)
Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges (H L Mencken Quotes)
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable (H L Mencken Quotes)
The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology (H L Mencken Quotes)
The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic (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)
The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation (H L Mencken Quotes)
The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it (H L Mencken Quotes)