Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [481-500] of 753 Truth quotesTruth QuotesTruth Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes [T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.~ H. L. Mencken Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.~ H. L. Mencken The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking. Not by accident does Genesis 3 make the father of knowledge a serpent -- slimy, sneaking and abominable. Since the earliest days the church as an organization has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions. It was, for centuries, an apologist for slavery, as it was the apologist for the divine right of kings.~ H. L. Mencken Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurence of the improbable.~ H. L. Mencken I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.~ H. L. Mencken Once [William Jennings Bryan] had one leg in the White House and the nation trembled under his roars. Now he is a tinpot pope in the Coca-Cola belt and a brother to the forlorn pastors who belabor halfwits in galvanized iron tabernacles behind the railroad yards.~ H. L. Mencken There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or late the laws governing the production of life itself will be discovered in the laboratory, and man may set up business as a creator on his own account. The thing, indeed, is not only conceivable; it is even highly probable.~ H. L. Mencken The historian’s first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.~ Jules Michelet If all mankind minus one were of one opinion and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that person that he, if he had the power, would be in silencing mankind… If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth; if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.~ John Stuart Mill This truth is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of Capital to govern the world. By dividing the voters through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance. Thus by discreet action we can secure for ourselves what has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished.~ Sir Denison Miller To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.~ Olin Miller None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.~ John Milton There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.~ John Milton Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.~ Lord Rees Mogg A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.~ Edgar J. Mohn Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.~ Ashley Montague The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.~ John Viscount Morley When it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.~ John Viscount Morley The prime function of the criminal law is to protect our persons and our property; these purposes are now engulfed in a mass of other distracting, inefficiently performed, legislative duties. When the criminal law invades the spheres of private morality and social welfare, it exceeds its proper limits at the cost of neglecting its primary tasks. This unwarranted extension is expensive, ineffective, and criminogenic.~ Norval Morris Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.~ Malcolm Muggeridge Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print