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One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.
H. L. Mencken
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H. L. Mencken
Age: 75 †
Born: 1880
Born: September 12
Died: 1956
Died: January 29
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Henry Louis Mencken
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All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.
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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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I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.
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The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.
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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.
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If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so God may be jealous of him, and eager to see his superiority perish with his bodily frame.
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In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.
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Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced.
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To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
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I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
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When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.
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Whatever the label on the parties, or the war cries issuing from the demagogues who lead them, the practical choice is between the plutocracy on the one side and a rabble of preposterous impossibilists on the other.
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The aim of New Deals is to exterminate the class of creditors and thrust all men into that of debtors. It is like trying to breedcattle with all cows and no bulls.
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Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.
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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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