More quotes by H.L. Mencken

"Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing."
"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
"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."
"In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms."
"You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something."