Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
--Blaise Pascal
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
--Blaise Pascal
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
--Thomas Paine
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
--Henry Miller
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
--H. L. Mencken
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
--H. L. Mencken
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
--H. L. Mencken
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
--H. L. Mencken
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
--H. L. Mencken
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
--H. L. Mencken
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