Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance. H. L. Mencken More Quotes by H. L. Mencken More Quotes From H. L. Mencken There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind to the level of brutes. They are the sworn and sinister agents of Beelzebub, who yearns to conquer the world, and has his eye especially upon Tennessee.] H. L. Mencken conquer-the-worldeyescience It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. H. L. Mencken faithmendull A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. H. L. Mencken democracyfreedomanimal I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors. H. L. Mencken freedombelievethinking I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking. H. L. Mencken believereligionthinking A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. H. L. Mencken marriageanniversaryfunny We must be willing to pay a price for freedom. H. L. Mencken freedompaymentpay Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility." H. L. Mencken atheismatheistreligion How do they taste? They taste like more. H. L. Mencken cookingtastefood Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. H. L. Mencken marriageanniversaryhusband The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. H. L. Mencken occupationbelievereligion To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! H. L. Mencken wisdommenideas Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. H. L. Mencken wisdomliteraturemen In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. H. L. Mencken soldierherowar For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and necessary to the common weal, has no assurance that it will sustain him while he stands ready to practice it, or keep him out of the poorhouse when illness or age makes him idle. H. L. Mencken practicemencountry Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gentler, more dignified, and more agreeable undertakings. H. L. Mencken citizenslibertygovernment No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. H. L. Mencken flirtymarriagenice What men value in this world is not rights but privileges. H. L. Mencken leadershiprightsmen Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking. H. L. Mencken freedomlifefunny The so-called Philosophy of India is even more blowsy and senseless than the metaphysics of the West. It is at war with everything we know of the workings of the human mind, and with every sound idea formulated by mankind. If it prevailed in the whole modern world we'd still be in the Thirteenth Century; nay, we'd be back among the Egyptians of the pyramid age. Its only coherent contribution to Western thought has been theosophy-and theosophy is as idiotic as Christian Science. It has absolutely nothing to offer a civilized white man. H. L. Mencken christianphilosophywar
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