| 40 Famous Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken
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“If you want peace, work for justice.”
Justice Quotes |
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“Adultery is the application of democracy to love”
Adultery Quotes |
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“Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world”
Autobiography Quotes |
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“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
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“I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.”
Chicago Quotes |
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“There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character”
Civilization Quotes |
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“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”
Conscience Quotes |
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“The cynics are right nine times out of ten.”
Cynicism Quotes |
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“A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.”
First love Quotes |
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“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”
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“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
Government Quotes |
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“Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup”
Idealism Quotes |
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“There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness”
Impulses Quotes |
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“Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice”
Injustice Quotes |
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“You can't kiss an oil well.”
Kissing Quotes |
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“The Liberals have many tails, and chase them all”
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“Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another”
Mankind Quotes |
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“It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.”
Materialism Quotes |
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“Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame of a candle, I say, is a gloriously fine thing. It makes us sober; it makes us a little sad; and many of us it makes poetic. But above all,”
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“Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it”
Remorse Quotes |
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“Going to school does not make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a car”
Schools Quotes |
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“Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents”
Schools Quotes |
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“Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.”
Science Quotes |
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“Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master”
Socialism Quotes |
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“For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.”
Theology Quotes |
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Henry Louis Mencken Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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