More quotes by H.L. Mencken

"Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull."
"Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing."
"You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something."
"The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians."
"The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens."