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H L Mencken Inspirational Quotes (501)

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Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.
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The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians - and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man.
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Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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It is only doubt that creates.
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High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.
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The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.
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What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties
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He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.
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Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.
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It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.
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I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
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A poet over 30 is pathetic
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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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New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake
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One of the laudable by-products of the Freudian quackery is the discovery that lying, in most cases, is involuntary and inevitable--that the liar can no more avoid it than he can avoid blinking his eyes when a light flashes or jumping when a bomb goes off behind him.
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Never underestimate the bad taste of the American public
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The highfalutin aims of democracy, whether real or imaginary, are always assumed to be identical with its achievements. This, of course, is sheer hallucination. Not one of those aims, not even the aim of giving every adult a vote, has been realized. It has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
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