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H L Mencken Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated Apr 2024
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
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The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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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.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
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Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
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